This page will serve as a central location for recipes we share in our monthly lessons in Delano, Standard, Buttonwillow and Richland school districts.

The CalFresh Program, federally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), issues monthly electronic benefits that can be used to buy most foods at many markets and food stores. The CalFresh Program helps to improve the health and well-being of qualified households and individuals by providing them a means to meet their nutritional needs.

Servicing Delano School District, Richland School District, Standard School District, and Buttonwillow School District.

• Dried fruit is made when the majority of a fruit’s water content is removed with help from the sun or dehydrators.

• Americans eat more raisins per year than fresh grapes.

• Dried fruits are also a good source of vitamins and minerals, including Vitamins A and C, potassium, and iron.

• Dried fruits are a good source of dietary fiber. Fiber helps to promote regularity, and can also help to lower cholesterol levels.

• Dried apples contain minerals, vitamins, etc., that promote skin freshness, regulate blood pressure, improve memory, etc.

• Dried strawberries contain potassium, fiber, antioxidants, and vitamin C. As a result, they can boost one’s overall health, especially heart health, and reduce cancer risks.

• Dried pineapples contain fiber, potassium, vitamin calcium, vitamin A, vitamin B, antioxidants, fluoride, and manganese. They can help to prevent cancer.

• Pumpkins are an excellent source of Vitamin A, supporting your eye and skin health.

• Pumpkins are 90% water.

• Pumpkins are a variety of sizes ranging from less than one pound to over 1,000 pounds.

• The largest known pumpkin weighed in at a whopping 2,749 pounds named “Michael Jackson” in Minnesota..

• The pumpkin is the state fruit of New Hampshire. (Yes, you read that right…pumpkins are a fruit!)

• Pumpkins can by enjoyed many ways including: cooked, mashed, steamed, in soups, or baked in breads.

• Canned pumpkin has many of the same nutrients as fresh pumpkin.

• California grown pumpkins are harvested in the fall from October through December.

• Pumpkin flowers are edible.

• • Have SEEDS (so we know its a fruit!)
    

  • Grown on a tree

  • Loaded with VITAMIN C

  • Good source of fiber; a complex carbohydrate

  • 2,500 varieties grown in the United States

  • 7,500 different varieties grown worldwide
    

  • Many varieties (Golden delicious, honeycrisp, fuji)

  • Come in green, Red, Yellow

• Mandarins are rich in Vitamin C.
• There is about 67,000 acres of mandarins in California, mostly right here in the San Joaquin Valley.
• One acre can hold between 100-300 trees.
• Harvesting mandarins starts in October and can go as late as May.
• Mandarins belong to the citrus family along with oranges, lemons, limes, and grapefruit.
• The trunk and branches of a mandarin tree are covered in spikes.
• A mandarin tree can produce around 180 pounds of fruit…roughly the same weight as a newborn Asian elephant!

• Kiwifruits are originally from China and they used to be called the ‘Chinese Gooseberry’ before they were renamed ‘Kiwi fruit’ in 1959 by the New Zealanders, due to its similar appearance to a kiwi bird.
• Kiwifruit has brown fuzzy skin and is edible although it can make your tongue feel tingly.
• Eating 2 kiwis a day provides your body with your daily dose of Vitamin C.
• Eating 2 kiwi fruits an hour before bedtime will help you get a better night sleep because of their high level of serotonin.
• California produces 98% of the United States kiwis.
• There are over 400 different kiwi varieties, the main types are Hayward (the most common green kiwifruit), chico, Saanichton 12, and golden kiwifruit.

• Grapefruit is a fruit and grows on trees.

• The trees can reach up to 45 feet tall.

• California, Texas, and Florida are the main producers of grapefruit in the USA.

• They were named grapefruit because they grow in bunches like grapes.

• There is about 20 varieties of grapefruits which include a variety of colors such as white, pink, and red.

• Grapefruits are made up of about 92% water.

• There are special spoons made for eating grapefruit.

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