Fruits have long held a place of prominence on our plates. Whether enjoyed plain as a snack, tossed into salads, blended into smoothies or baked into desserts, we love them for their vibrant color, ...

You’ve done Champagne toasts and countdown kisses, but have you tried eating grapes on New Year’s Eve? Here’s everything to know about the good luck tradition.

Bananas and grapes provide vitamins, minerals, and calories for energy. Both are good sources of potassium and are also rich in disease-fighting antioxidants.

Both bananas and grapes are nutrient-rich and loaded with antioxidants, but one offers a bigger potassium boost — and the other wins in antioxidant diversity. Here’s how they stack up for your health.

The 12 grape theory refers to the idea that having 12 grapes, one at each strike of the clock at midnight, brings forth the new year and brings people luck.

The Walmart Neighborhood Market, 10301 Alameda Ave., has about half its shelves stocked with grapes. The green seedless grapes are $1.97 a pound, and the red seedless grapes are also $1.97 a pound.

Almost all the wine we drink is made from various varieties of Vitis vinifera, a grape native to the Mediterranean and Central Asia. There are more than 10,000 varieties of this genus of grape. But ...

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This tradition has been running for more than 100 years and it sees people eat exactly 12 grapes when the new year comes in. As you're eating the grapes, you're meant to think of the things you want ...

It’s not easy peddling fresh fruit to a nation of junk-food addicts. But in rural Kern County, David Cain is working to win the stomachs and wallets of U.S. grocery shoppers. Cain is a fruit breeder.