In the fall of 1994, there was a buzz around the UC Santa Cruz campus. Something was about to go down, something big. Not many details were known at first, but it revolved around an upcoming major ...

Pawpaw, a tropical-tasting fruit native to North America, has a sunny flavor and even its own song. Why don't more grocery stores sell it?

Pawpaws are part of the custard apple or “soursop” family, which is a flowering plant tree or shrub, and they have a long ...

Some 3.8 million metric tons of bananas move through ports operated by dockworkers represented by the International Longshoremen's Association yearly -- that's 75% of all of the bananas in the U.S., ...

One of the first places shoppers may feel the effects of the dockworkers' strike is in the produce aisle. Hundreds of tons of ...

Pawpaws grow in the eastern half of North America, from Ontario to Florida. But in Ohio and Kentucky, some growers are ...

Banana trees are not actually trees, but, nonetheless, some types deserve more credit for their ability to potentially ...

and fruit, unlike other plants, the banana plant is often considered the ‘Kalpavriksha’ in Hindu mythology, meaning the wish-fulfilling tree. That gives a very strong symbolic meaning to the banana ...

One man’s “never-ending quest” for the least-known varieties of the world’s most-eaten fruit. Namwa bananas in Hawaii. The ...

If you've never tried one before, they often taste like a combination of mango, pineapple and sometimes banana ... to note that not all pawpaw trees produce fruit. That's because pawpaws spread ...

The bananas you enjoy in the morning, with your cereal, smoothies, with a scoop of peanut butter, in your banana bread, or just on their own, are facing extinction due to a fungal disease known as ...