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Fruit salad is summer's all-purpose dish

Summer is the season of fruit, since it seems that more things are in season than at any other time of year. Not only is fruit good for you in terms of nutritional value, but fruits can even help you lose weight. The easiest way to incorporate fruits into your diet is to cut up a large bowl of them and keep them in the fridge. A fruit salad will last longer than fruits stored at room temperature and, because they are already cut up, they are available for snacks and other meals.

There is no recipe for fruit salad, so you can include any kind of fruit you like. Melons and stone fruits, such as peaches and nectarines, are good choices and berries, grapes and pineapple work well, too. For breakfast, serve the fruit salad with yogurt and honey, adding a topping of nuts or granola for some crunch. This combination works well for a light lunch, too. Fruit salad can't really be the focus of dinner, but it can still be served as a side and provides a particularly nice contrast to smoky, tangy barbecue.

And for dessert? Berries and sweetened whipped cream still counts as a fruit salad, right?

Filed Under: Spirit of Summer, Light Food, Ingredients
Tags: berries, breakfast, dessert, fruit, fruit salad, fruit salads, fruits, grapes, healthy, healthy eating, light food, lunch, melons, nutrition, stone fruits, summer

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Meg Fortino

8-04-2006 @12:44PM Meg Fortino said... Fruit salad can indeed be the focus of dinner: Serve a big bowl of it topped with a big lump of cottage cheese and some whole wheat bread, and you've got summer nirvana!
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