Del Monte Fresh Produce is sponsoring a program to help support kindergarten thru 12th grade public school teachers across North and Central America.
One hundred prizes totaling $1,000 each will be awarded to teachers who get the most votes in the “Teacher Monday: Cash for Classrooms” online contest at www.fruits.com.
To celebrate Del Monte has generously provided Grocery Alerts with a $25 gift certificate to be used for their delicious fruits. I know
Pineapples are on sale at the moment at various places and bananas are always delicious.
We wanted to make this simple to win, just comment at the bottom of the post and state with your e-mail in your profile what is your favorite fruit and why?
We will award a $25 gift certificate November 30, 2010 to the most interesting answer!
Bananas
Bananas have been around forever. Scientists have proven that bananas have grown on Earth for over 1 million years. Bananas are a good source of Vitamin C, potassium and dietary fiber…
Pineapple
The pineapple is not a single fruit, but a “sorosis.” That means the fruit of a hundred or more separate flowers grow on the plant spike. As they grow, they swell with juice and pulp, expanding to become the fruit…
Honeydew
Don’t be fooled by a Honeydew’s pale rind, because its green flesh is actually one of the sweetest of all melons when ripe…
Grapes
Grapes are high in Vitamin C and Vitamin K and low in Saturated Fat, Cholesterol and Sodium. The grape is one of the oldest fruits to be cultivated going back as far as biblical times…
Cantaloupe
Half a cantaloupe will meet your daily requirement for both Vitamins A and C, as well as valuable minerals such as folic acid and potassium. Cantaloupe has no fat or cholesterol and provides fiber in the diet…
Tomatoes
Tomatoes are actually a fruit, not a vegetable. The Aztecs were the first know cultivators of tomatoes. Tomatoes are high in Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Calcium, Potassium and Lycopene, an inhibitor to heart disease, as well as lung, cervical, breast and prostate cancer…
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My favorite fruit is grapes I like to sit and eat them with my 2 year old granddaughter while watching her favorite shows on television.
Congratulations, Clairecanuck. The lemon is a versatile fruit – I love to use it for cleaning and cooking.
I think the most popular answer was Banana,
I was so impressed with all the answers!
I wish I could give a gift card to everyone.
My favorite fruit is cherries. I love the taste. garrettsambo@aol.com
My favorite fruit is the orange but it’s hard to pick just one. I love almost every fruit that I find in my local grocery store.
Bananas. It’s always been a fave of mine, one of the few I am not allergic too. :)
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I love honeydew melon. It reminds me of great summer squirt gun fights with my dad!
bananas because they are yummy
I love grapes because they taste good and are fun to eat
Cherries are my favorite fruit because they are just “That Good’!
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I love strawberries, they are so sweet and delicious, thanks!
My favorite fruits are fresh pineapple and Asian pears.
I have a soft spot for melon!
My son’s favorite fruit are bananas. He LOVES bananas, and must have one every day! I’m posting about my son because I actually can’t stand eating fresh bananas – they give me the “willies” because of their texture (feels like trying to eat cotton balls!) I do, however, LOVE banana bread. If I win this GC….I’ll be buying bananas, just not for me!
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My favorite fruit is Apples especially Ontario Grown. We once got them as treats on Holloween and totally enjoyed them. Apples were the forbidden Fruit but remember an apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Bananas for on cereal, and in my favorite banana and peanut butter sandwich.
My favorite fruit is the tomato, I love eating them at room temperture like most people eat apples.
Fav fruit has to be blueberries…you can use them in recipes so many ways, sweet and savory.
But the best way to eat them is frozen like popcorn! I want some now!
I love bananas…they taste great, are easy to just throw in your bag, and they aren’t messy.
favorite is strawberries. The taste is delicious. and it goes with so many great things. Ice cream, cereal, by itself
I love bananas because they can be used for so many things.
I put them in my cereal, with peanut butter on toast, smoothies.
They basically aare the only reason I encorporate breakfast into my day.
We love Bananas. We eat a lot of them.
Living in Hawaii, my favorite fruit is pineapple. I love the tangy sweet taste.
My favorite fruit is a banana because they are good for you and so easy to grab and eat. But I have to fight my dogs to eat them. They beg for them whenever I have one (daily).
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Blackberries are my favorite fruit because I used to pick them when I was a child and because I love blackberry jam and peanut butter.
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My favorite fruit is the Tomato because it tastes so good and I can grow it all summer long in my container garden
my favorite fruit is fruit cocktail! My brothers and I would eat it right out of the can when we were younger after coming home from school as a snack – one of my best memories! Del Monte makes the best fruit cocktail I have ever tasted – cheers! P.S. I owuld use the certificate to purchase a variety of fruits to make my own fresh fruit cocktail!
my favorite fruit is fruit cocktail! My brothers and I would eat it right out of the can when we were younger after coming home from school as a snack – one of my best memories! Del Monte makes the best fruit cocktail I have ever tasted – cheers! P.S. I owuld use the certificate to purchase a variety of fruits to make my own fresh fruit cocktail!
My favourite fruit is the pomegranite. It brings me back to memories of my childhood at Christmas when it was such a treat to eat a pomegranite.
My favorite are apples or oranges :)
I love bananas because I love to cut it up and eat it in my cereal.
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Watermelon is my favorite fruit…with the seeds…so i can have a seed spittin’ contest afterwards!
I love Bananas!!!!! I like that I can do so much with them or just eat them by themself!
My favorite fruit has to be raspberries. Put them on cereal, bake them in a pie, sprinkle them over ice cream, eat them with milk and brown sugar or all by themselves. There is no such thing as a bad way to eat raspberries!
Like many, pineapple is a favorite and I only acquired a taste for it in my adult life. I wanted to find out some info so I discovered from Wikipedia that the pineapple being a herbaceous plant grows to a height of about 3 and half feet to almost 5 feet tall. Living in Canada and never seeing a pineapple plant, I was always under the impression it was a tall tree with pineapples growing up at the top like a banana tree.
My daughter loves cantaloupe. It is good to see that it provides so many nutrients.
My favorite is honeydew, because they are so sweet when ripe.
I love strawberries-it reminds of the times that my sister and I use to go to the strawberry patch and pick :) thank for the giveaway
I love my Pineapple sweet juicy and good gfor me…
Yum yum yum
Watermelon is my favorite fruit.
Thanks for the chance.
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I had no idea the pineapple was made up of all those flowers! No wonder it is my favourite. Please don’t tell my husband…buying fruit does not get you out of buying fresh flowers!
I am so a tomatoe person; nothing better than going to your garden and picking your own fresh tomatoes; great tasting and so good for u;
blueberries-so yummy
My favourite is pineapple – especially in chocolate fondue! I really like the texture.
My favorite accompaniment to pineapple is cottage cheese, with two slices of homemade bread slattered with butter.
My favorite fruit is the orange. Fresh vitamin C and great tasting.
My favourite fruit is lemons and lemonade they are rich in Vitamin C and can actually help you get over a cold which is great to know
love bananas. great to eat and cheap to buy.
Happy Thanksgiving! :)
Tomatoes are my favourite fruit. You can make sandwiches, salads, spaghetti sauce, etc with them. There are many varieties of tomatoes. My favourite is tomatoes on the vine.
My favorite fruit is something called the Rollinea. I don’t know if I am spelling that right! It’s a fruit with large black seeds that I spoon out because they are nasty and inedible. But the flesh inside is like custard!!! mmm so yummy!! It’s a tropical fruit – it grows here in Hawaii, but I don’t know where it is native to.
mandarin oranges
I like blueberries they are sweet and full of anti-oxidants. I enjoy bananas as well, i like to make peanutbutter and banana sandwiches. I sure could use this am using foodbanks as I am on assistance.
Pineapple is my favorite fruit. Its so sweet and refreshing.
I simply pine for pineapple – it’s divine.
Pomegranates. It’s very juicy, but takes patience to eat. As well, juice is very staining to skin and clothes. Love it, even with the few drawbacks.
My favorite fruit is Honey Dew Melon, so fresh and sweet!!!!!
I love all fruits but I’d have to say that my favorite is the apple. Apple pie, apple cobbler, apple sauce … even juice … and, of course, just a raw apple. I grew up in Washington state where apples are plentiful. We always had apples around for quick snacks. There’s nothing better than a cold, juicy apple. There’s a reason that an apple a day keeps the doctor away … they are really healthy. But health aside, they transport me back home … to being a kid and biting into a sweet Red Delicious!
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My favorite fruit is Honeydew melon. I love the taste.
Oooh this is tough but I would have to say those Chinese mandarin oranges that are so popular this time of year! Orange you going to ask why? Well they are so easy to peel and eat anywhere. A great and fun snack to throw in my daughter’s lunch that she will actually eat, and I like to throw a few in my purse to eat while out Christmas shopping. They are sweet and delicious, and a great way to get vitamin C in my diet during cold and flu season!
My favorite fruit is the nectarine. They’re sweet and portable.
My favorite fruit is the lemon. It’s high in vitamin C. You can drink it, eat it…as in add it to savory dishes and make amazing lemon desserts. My favourite dessert is the old fashioned lemon sponge custard, which is inexpensive and tastes wonderful…a spoonful of summer! The lowly lemon is also used as a cleaner that removes stains. And apparently when lemon is applied to the skin it helps prevent sunburn. Lemon also helps flush toxins and bacteria from the body.
My favourite fruit is the papaya because it is so juicy and sweet – and full of vitamins.
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My favourite fruit is pinapple. I heard it eats fat. I also love it because they are so sweet and very affordable now, better than can pinapple.
My favourite fruit is the banana, because I just LOVE toasted peanut butter and banana sandwiches :-)
My favorite is banana. It fills you up when you need a snack (without reaching for candy or chocolate) and is good for you!
My favorite fruit is pineapple as it is refreshing, easy to eat and good for my blood type!
My favorite fruit is pineapple as it is refreshing, easy to eat and good for my blood type!
My favorite fruit is Banana – It’s the most portable, easy to peal, ready to eat and nutritious food, which can be had without a knife, soiling hands and lot of effort. Go Del Monte Go !!!!
My favorite fruit is Banana – It’s the most portable, easy to peal, ready to eat and nutritious food, which can be had without a knife, soiling hands and lot of effort. Go Del Monte Go !!!!
Mine has been the Banana since I was able to eat solid foods. Now I am trying to introduce Bananas to my son who is 6 months….lol
I love bananas and pineapple. I make smoothies for the family so they can get in their vitamins and nutrients without the kids knowing it. Great way to get your fruit in.
FAVOURITE FRUIT IS BANANAS…..IT IS GOOD FOR MY HEART AND SOOOOOO GOOD TASTING
My favourite fruit is the Pineapple…. Everytime I see some at potlucks or on a fruit tray, I just have to have some. So yummy. So exotic. and it reminds me of a trip in DR when it was in abundance.
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I love bananas,on cereal, peanut butter and banana on toast,yummm
My favourite fruit is Banana because I open it up from the bottom like the monkeys do.
I love pretty much all fruit, but if pressed to pick my favourite I’d have to say it’s the Pink Lady apple. I just discovered these amazing apples, the are perfectly crunchy and sweet, and satisfy my sweet tooth in a healthy way !
Grapes! You can freeze ‘em and use ‘em as ice cubes in summer drinks!
Raspberries are my absolute favourite fruit. The perfect size for snacking, no peeling required, they are the perfect everyday treat.
My favorite fruit is tomato, because of the many things to make with this and its delicous flavor and Vitamin C and potassium content.
My favorite fruit is orange. When I smell it and eat it, it makes me feel happy, as like I’m having sun. Orange is so vitamined,smell christmas et is so positive to me that it’s a real party to eat that fruit ! Enjoy !
My favorite fruit is the underrated grapefruit because it provides the perfect blend of sweet and sour sensations. Plus, it’s a low-calorie treat that lasts a long time while I’m working at my desk.
My favourite fruit is pineapple. It takes me back to a trip I went on to the Bahamas when I was young. There was a man who walked around on the beach selling spears of freshly picked pineapple. It was heavenly. It’s not as good from the store but it still takes me back there.
My favorite fruit is banana because while in labor, that is all I could think of. My son now seems to crave bananas on days when he is not feeling well.