Like many historic fruits and vegetables, strawberry plants were used as ornamental plants in ancient civilizations. However, strawberry cultivation in Europe caught on around the 1300s.

The flesh of the fruit is creamy, white, and tastes like sweet custard. If you love chocolate, you'll love this fruit. Theobroma cacao is a tree that grows cacao, or cocoa pods.

A quince fruit looks like a pale yellow, bumpy apple, sometimes covered in soft fuzz. When ripe but uncooked, it is solid, hard to slice, and its flavor astringent, so why bother to eat quince at all?

A few squat “yellow donut nectarines” — they look like fruit bialys — were chin-dripping juicy and so concentrated in flavor and scent you could rightly call them perfumed.

The video also includes some seriously cool facts—like did you know that corn is now 1,000 times the size it was before it was domesticated in 7000 BC? And it used to taste like a dry, raw potato.

The last grape-related gimmicky fruit that really made a splash was the Grapple, an apple that had been soaked in grape juice. Not really that exciting, when you put it that way. But this year, the ...

You may not know how much of each you should eat each day -- or what a serving of fruit or vegetables even looks like. If you're trying to increase your fruit and veggie consumption, use this ...