Delicious figs

10/04/2023

It is best to eat figs raw. It is enough to cut the fruit in half and scoop out the pulp with a teaspoon or eat it with the peel if it is not very hard.

10/04/2023

The fact is that a fig is essentially an inverted flower, and it cannot be pollinated in the usual way. A special type of blastophagous wasp copes with this: the wasp climbs inside, losing its wings along the way, and lays eggs.

10/02/2023

The fact is that every ripe fig fruit contains the remains of fig wasps - the only pollinating insects for this species. Since the wasp belongs to the animal world, then a fig with digested remains inside is not exactly a plant. An extreme form of veganism is fruitarianism.

09/30/2023

The dried fruit contains several times more nutrients, but also several times more calories. The healthy norm for both fresh and dried figs is no more than 2-3 fruits per day.

09/28/2023

First figs of the season!

Did you know that not all figs require a wasp for pollination? It’s a big misconception.

While certain varieties of figs such as “caprifigs” rely on wasps to pollinate them, a symbiotic relationship which kills the wasp and absorbs its body into the fruit itself, the overwhelming majority of figs sold in America are self-pollinating common figs (like Brown Turkey) and do not require wasps.

09/26/2023