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Raspberries
Facts

  • There are more than 200 species of raspberries in the world.

  • Although very perishable, raspberries are now imported from as far away as Chile and New Zealand – thanks to air travel and climate-controlled packaging!

  • Raspberries are a wonderful source of vitamin C, containing 40 percent of a person’s daily needs. Wow!

  • Eat only one cup of plump, juicy raspberries and you’ll have one of your 5 A Day! Yeah!!!

  • The raspberry is composed of many connecting drupelets (individual sections of fruit, each with its own seed) surrounding a central core.


*Image courtesy of www.oregon-berries.com