Cherry // fruit

🌱🍒🤔 Did you know that can make vibrant syrup from cherry pits that would typically be tossed? Cherries offer you all the things you have been looking for in a berry: juiciness, color, and sweet taste. 

💪 Cherries are not only a great snack but also a good source of fiber, vitamins, and minerals, including potassium, calcium, vitamin A, and folic acid. And luckily for you, it’s time to enjoy this tasty seasonal fruit!

👩‍🍳 There are more than 1000 varieties of sweet and tart cherries to choose from! You can also roast, fry, pickle, dehydrate them, make candies, or bake Grandma Sita’s plant-based chocolate cake. Just grab some cherries… Ready, set, and bake! 

👵❤️ Grandma Sita’s tips:
*Stored properly, fresh cherries should last at least one week in the fridge. Make sure, the cherries are dry, remove any bad cherries, and keep the stems on the cherries. 
*To keep cherries longer, freeze the fruits in airtight freezer bags.

📗 Fun fact, there is no wonder why the meaning the proverb “like a cherry on top” means perfection. It comes from the idea that a bowl of ice cream is great, but even greater if a cherry is put on top. 

🚜 The precise start of the cherry season depends on where you live, but generally, you’ll start to see fresh cherries popping up at farmers’ markets and produce stands around mid-May / early June, which is when you’ll likely see in-season and affordable bags in your local grocery store.

🌎♻️ When you buy locally produced food, you support your farmers and communities. Remember, local food is picked in the last 24 hours, and seasonal food is picked at its peak taste. Win-win!