Pear // fruit

 🌱🍐🤔 Did you know the best way to eat a pear is unpeeled? The skin contains most of the nutrients, especially fiber and antioxidants. Make sure to wash it thoroughly before eating. However, the core of a pear is inedible because the seeds contain a naturally occurring toxin called amygdalin, but it’s great for composting. What else can this fall fruit offer?

💪 Eating two pears per day meets your fruit needs! Pears are full of fiber, low in calories, and loaded with antioxidants, including vitamin C. If you want to eat fruit before bedtime, choose low-sugar fruits that are easy to digest, like pears, berries, and apples.

👩‍🍳 Pears are one of the fruits you can experiment with! They can be roasted, boiled, poached, dried, pickled, and enjoyed raw, either eaten out-of-hand or sliced into salads. You can use them in savory and sweet dishes like chutneys, sorbets, smoothies, cakes, ice creams, compotes, jams, and much more! Time to try Grandma Sita’s delicious plant-based salad recipe here sweet-potato-soup-and-pear-salad

👵💚 Grandma Sita’s tips:
*Pears should be ripened at room temperature. Putting them in a bowl with other ripening fruits or in a paper bag allows the ethylene ( a gas naturally given off during the ripening process) to speed the process along.
*Once ripe, you can store pears in the refrigerator. You can also freeze overripe pears, they are ideal for smoothies, compotes, or pies.
*Although the peel is edible, some pear varieties may have tough skins with a slightly bitter flavor that is accentuated when cooked. Don’t throw them away, dehydrated pear peels make delicious additions to homemade tea blends and in addition, pear peels can be used for composting.

📗 The wood from a pear tree is used in making furniture, kitchen tools, and smoking food. 

♻️ There are more than 3,000 pear varieties grown worldwide. 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! 

🌎 Eating local and seasonal fruits and vegetables helps to reduce food waste, saves resources, improves food quality and healthy habits, and boosts the local economy.