🌱 Fig

Ficus carica

A soft, sweet fruit shaped like a little teardrop, full of tiny crunchy seeds inside.

Small and rounded with thin purple or green skin and soft pinkish flesh inside.

Very sweet and honey-like, with a soft chewy texture and tiny crunchy seeds.

Full of fiber and minerals like calcium that help your bones and your tummy.

Eat it fresh and whole, dried as a sweet snack, or cooked into jam.

Grows on leafy trees in warm, sunny lands, ripening in late summer.

Best in the warm days of late summer and early fall.

Figs are one of the oldest fruits people ever grew, raised in the Middle East long, long ago.

The tiny crunchy bits you feel inside a fig are actually hundreds of little seeds.

Ripe figs are soft and do not last long, so eat them within a day or two.