Fourth-generation farmer Kait Thornton insists that the wax you can scrape off an apple isn’t dangerous and you shouldn’t ...

With the holiday feasts and their hearty meals, it's essential to find foods that help us detox and reduce inflammation. This ...

While the old saying goes that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, scientists have discovered a new equation for fruit ...

“This may shock you guys that there is wax on store-bought apples,” she added. But it shouldn’t. To demonstrate why, Thornton ...

Vitamin C is a powerful skin brightener, and the African star apple happens to be packed with this essential nutrient. By ...

The University of Georgia’s Heritage Apple Orchard is home to 138 varieties of heirloom apples that were once in circulation ...

Pears gleam through red leaves. But the real stars are the apples – more than 4,000 trees, of more than 2,000 varieties. Their fruit clusters along wand-like branches and carpets the ground in a ...

Five years ago, when Renfu Lu’s research team tested its in-field sorting machine in Michigan apple orchards, they received ...

Apple trees are commonly affected by fire blight, apple scab, fruit rots, rusts, and powdery mildew. Fire blight is a common problem in pears. Stone fruits are affected by peach leaf curl, bacterial ...

The most popular British culinary apple is the Bramley apple. Most commercial fruit is picked under-ripe and put into controlled atmosphere storage (keeping the apples in air that has a high ...

Gerlach expects to see a similar “long tail” — stretching the crop over 15 months — with the 2024 crop, which also came in ...