Seasonal fruit calendar by months
Many people try to buy seasonal fruits, because such fruits contain the maximum benefit and are quite affordable. What fruits should be bought in a given month? The seasonal calendar will help answer this question. Thanks to him, you will learn about which fruits ripen in season in Russia, and which ones are brought from overseas countries.
Winter
On the one hand, it seems that in the winter season it is impossible to find high-quality and ripe fruits. But on the other hand, you just need to know which fruits you can buy on the market during the cold season, and which ones should be avoided. Of course, it is better to refuse to buy strawberries or peaches in winter. Choose quality fruits according to the season. Given the seasonality of fruits, you can choose those fruits that will be most beneficial to your health.
At the very beginning of winter, you can still enjoy a sweet and very healthy persimmon. This bright fruit contains many useful substances, thanks to which it is possible to normalize the work of digestion and not only. Basically, these fruits are brought from Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan. The season ends there at the end of autumn, so at the beginning of winter you can still find fresh and healthy fruits on the shelves.
By the way, if the fruit turns out to be astringent, then it can be placed in the freezer for a couple of hours, and it will become soft and sweet.
In the winter months, it is quite possible to consume oranges brought from Spain. In this sunny country, they begin to ripen only in November. The season of these citrus fruits lasts until mid-spring.Therefore, all winter you can safely eat citrus fruits from Spain, recharge with vitamins and strengthen your immunity.
In early February, oranges from Egypt or Turkey may appear on the shelves. Just the citrus season begins there in the middle of winter and lasts until summer. It is worth noting that the fruits from these countries have a thicker skin and may be less sweet. But this does not mean that they do not have the necessary vitamins and nutrients.
From December until spring, you can buy apples that were grown in the Russian open spaces. Despite the fact that the apple season ends in October, domestic fruits are perfectly stored until spring, without losing their useful qualities. At the end of February, you can even find juicy strawberries on the shelves. At this time of the year, it is brought from the USA, mainly from California. The taste of this berry is special and very fragrant.
In order to saturate your body with various vitamins and other useful substances, you should pay attention to such an exotic fruit as avocado. The season of this fruit never ends. We can say that the season lasts all year round. Therefore, you can safely buy an "alligator pear" at any time of the year, including during the winter months.
If the fruit turns out to be a little underripe, then you can put it in a paper bag along with bananas and after two or three days it will be the right ripeness.
Spring
If you want to choose only juicy, high-quality and tasty fruits by months, then study our seasonal calendar further. In early March, fragrant strawberries already appear on the shelves. If these are fruits brought from Spain or Greece, then it is quite possible to buy them in the spring. And also in the spring they bring this berry from Portugal, Egypt and Poland.
In the spring, you can continue to enjoy citrus fruits from Spain or Turkey. In the spring, the citrus fruit season continues in these countries, so the fruits have time to get enough of the sun and absorb all the vitamins and elements necessary for health.
Until other seasonal fruits appear, it is quite possible to buy exotic fruits. For example, bananas. The season of this fruit lasts all year round, so you should not worry about the safety and quality of the fruit. Bananas are useful at any age, as they perfectly saturate and enrich the body with potassium. Among the exotic fruits at this time, you should pay attention to kiwi, pineapple, mango and various citrus fruits.
Summer
The summer months are perhaps the richest and most varied in terms of berries and fruits. Their diversity in the hot season is pleasantly surprising. At this time of the year, you can find absolutely everything on the shelves, from wild berries to melons and watermelons from the melon fields of the North Caucasus, Central Asia and the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov.
At the beginning and middle of summer, it is quite possible to enjoy juicy and healthy strawberries. Not only imported, but also domestic berries appear on the shelves. In summer, you should taste ripe peaches, which are most often brought from Armenia and Central Asia.
In June and July, juicy apricots, nectarines, peaches, cherries, plums and various berries appear on the shelves. During this period, you can safely buy fruits from a wide variety of countries, since the summer season is considered the richest in many countries of the world. Fruits from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Greece and Turkey are very popular.
In August, the season of juicy and tasty domestic apples begins. At this time of the year you can find a wide variety of apple varieties for every taste.Early Russian varieties, which have a special taste, aroma and are fraught with many useful vitamins and elements, are very popular.
In addition, in August you can start enjoying juicy and ripe watermelons. The benefits of this huge berry are very great and adults and children love it. Fruits from Astrakhan are very popular. Astrakhan watermelons are larger and very sweet. In early August, you can safely buy melons. In Uzbekistan, just in time for the end of summer, various varieties ripen, with a thicker skin, but very fragrant and sweet. More than one hundred and fifty varieties of melons are grown in this sunny country, so it is quite possible to buy them in late summer and early autumn.
At the end of summer, different varieties of grapes ripen. Of course, the most popular varieties are seedless, which are sweeter and bring great benefits to the body. Grapes can be found both domestic and imported. Mostly juicy grapes are brought from Uzbekistan, Moldova, Turkey, Greece and Spain.
Delicious and very healthy figs are brought from Azerbaijan by the end of summer. This fruit is very sweet and high-calorie, therefore It is worth remembering this for those who strictly monitor their harmony.
Autumn
At the end of September, another useful fruit will appear on the shelves of shops and markets - this is pomegranate. In the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, these healthy fruits are just beginning to sing at this time. From Central Asia, pomegranates appear towards the end of autumn. If there are pomegranates on the shelves already in late summer and early autumn, then most likely the fruits are from Africa or South America.
In early September, there are still peaches on the shelves, which are mainly brought from China. Various varieties of autumn grapes from Uzbekistan, Moldova and Italy can also be found on sale.There is also domestic grapes, which are also extremely healthy. In addition, at the beginning of autumn there are still many ripe and healthy melons, watermelons, plums and pears.
In October, you can find a variety of domestic varieties of apples, pears or imported figs. And in November, quince is brought from sunny countries. This amazing fruit can be eaten fresh, or you can cook meat or sweet dishes with it. Quince can be found on the shelves in early spring.
See the following video for the seasonal fruit calendar by month.