Seasonal fruits and vegetables, a guide for the month of July

The summer brings sorbets, ice cream, slushies and iced drinks to be sipped on the beach, while the sun challenges us to find an effective way to shelter ourselves from the heat. Diving into the water may certainly be a temporary solution, but the sea will not always be there to save us: how can we find, therefore, a remedy for the heat in a healthy food, which does not provide only carbohydrates and a momentary consolation as a contribution

to our days?

Seasonal fruits and vegetables, here's the answer

Remembering it may seem trivial, but the basis of the sense of freshness given by a food is its water content. The higher the latter, the more we will have the feeling of being satisfied with the choice made, due to the fact that our body will use this very water to thermoregulate itself. So let's discover the foods richest in water and nutritional properties: seasonal fruits and vegetables with which to spend the summer!

Seasonal fruit

A colorful fruit salad can put you in a good mood as much as a cone or a cup, without tasting it involving the same feelings of guilt: the flavors of the undergrowth are an excellent starting point for making small bowls speckled with red and purple, the colors of strawberries, blueberries, currants, blackberries and raspberries, delicacies rich in vitamins and minerals. For those who appreciate more substantial snacks or more complete desserts, it would also be possible to combine fruit with white yogurt, creating a classic combination that never

goes out of style.

Preparing fruit salad, however, can be an uncomfortable and tedious operation if you need to wash, peel and cut the slightly larger fruits available in these sunny months, especially if you need to stone them before refrigerating everything with a pinch of lemon juice. A solution to this struggle can be the consumption of only one type of fruit, to be cut into slices and shared with friends: melon and watermelon are very suitable for this purpose (and one of them does not have seeds). Discover our seasonal fruit, it will arrive at your home in no time!

Seasonal vegetables

As

children's bitter enemies, vegetables are actually largely underestimated. With carrots it is even possible to make desserts and cakes as well as salads and light main courses, without disfiguring thanks to its bright orange color. Or bright purple. Did you know that carrots were born as purple vegetables?

In addition to carrots, cucumbers are also crispy added to the salad, together with celery, radicchio and radishes, or even with arugula. For a touch of red, let's also remember the omnipresent tomato, perhaps the most famous vegetable linked to this

time of year.

Finally, therefore, an additional list of fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables to consult before shopping:

• Apricots
• Amarene
• Bananas
• Figs
• Nespole
• Pere
• Peaches
• Plums

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• Onions
• Cabbages
• Chicory
• Green beans
• Fave
• Lettuce
• Aubergines
• Potatoes