Apples

Fresh Bananas

Time for a fresh banana. One of the most popular fruits worldwide, bananas contain essential nutrients. A 100-gram reference serving supplies 89 Calories, 31% of the US recommended Daily Value (DV) of vitamin B6, and moderate amounts of vitamin C, manganese and dietary fiber. Although bananas are commonly thought to contain exceptional potassium content, their actual potassium content is not high per typical food serving, having only 8% of the US recommended Daily Value for potassium.

Freshly Picked Cherries

In today's fun and challenging puzzle we feature some freshly picked cherries. Cherries are a good source of fibre, vitamins and minerals, including potassium, calcium, vitamin A and folic acid. They also contain antioxidants that are vital for good health as they protect our cells from damage caused by oxidants. Cherries blossom in April (in the Northern Hemisphere) and the peak season for the cherry harvest is in the summer. In southern Europe in June, in North America in June, in England in mid-July, and in southern British Columbia (Canada) in June to mid-August. In the Southern Hemisphere, cherries are usually at their peak in late December and are widely associated with Christmas.

Winter Squash and Pumpkins

It's harvest time and we're out on the farm gathering all kinds of fruits, vegetables, pumpkins and winter squashes. Start today's puzzle and put the Butternut, Spaghetti and Turban squashes featured in this colorful and challenging image back together as fast as you can and get a top place on our leaderboards. Winter squash have thick, tough shells that protect the sweet, rich flesh inside which makes them excellent storage vegetables. They are good for roasting, sauteing, steaming, mashing, pureed for soups, and baking. Butternut squash is the sweetest winter squash. All squashes are good source of fiber, vitamin C, manganese, magnesium, and potassium; and it is an excellent source of vitamin A and vitamin E. Pumpkin seeds also contain vitamin E, protein, B vitamins and several dietary minerals. The bright orange color of some of them is a dead giveaway they are loaded with an important antioxidant, beta-carotene. Recent research indicates that a diet rich in foods containing beta-carotene may reduce the risk of developing certain types of cancer and offers protection against heart disease. So are you waiting for? Start putting those colorful pumpkins back together. Have fun!

Red And Green Chili Peppers

Chili peppers are widely used in many cuisines to add spiciness to dishes. They originated in Mexico and have been a part of the human diet in the Americas since at least 7500 BCE. Upon their introduction into Europe, chilies were grown as botanical curiosities in the gardens of Spanish and Portuguese monasteries. Christian monks experimented with the culinary potential of chili and discovered that their pungency offered a substitute for black peppercorns. Chili pepper pods, which are berries, are used fresh or dried. Chilies are dried to preserve them for long periods of time, which may also be done by pickling. Dried chilies are often ground into powders. While red chilies contain large amounts of vitamin C, other species contain significant amounts of provitamin A beta-carotene. In addition, peppers are a rich source of vitamin B6.

Fresh Juicy Oranges

Orange pulp is an excellent source of vitamin C, providing 64% of the Daily Value in a 100 g serving. The are commonly peeled and eaten fresh or squeezed for juice. The outermost layer of the rind can be thinly grated to produce orange zest. Zest is popular in cooking because it contains oils and has a strong flavor similar to that of the orange pulp. Although not as juicy or tasty as the flesh, orange peel is edible and has significant contents of vitamin C, dietary fiber, total polyphenols, carotenoids, limonene and dietary minerals, such as potassium and magnesium.

Radishes

The radish is an edible root vegetable of the Brassicaceae family that was domesticated in Europe, in pre-Roman times. Radishes have numerous varieties, varying in size, color and duration of required cultivation time. Broadly speaking, radishes can be categorized into four main types (summer, fall, winter, and spring) and a variety of shapes lengths, colors, and sizes, such as red, pink, white, gray-black or yellow radishes, with round or elongated roots that can grow longer than a parsnip.

Fresh Tuna

Tuna is a saltwater fish. It belongs to the tribe Thunnini, a subgrouping of the Scombridae (mackerel) family. It is a sleek and streamlined fish, adapted for speed. Depending on the species it's size can vary greatly, ranging from the bullet tuna (max. length: 50 cm (1.6 ft), weight: 1.8 kg (4 lb)) up to the Atlantic bluefin tuna (max. length: 4.6 m (15 ft), weight: 684 kg (1,508 lb)). Found in warm seas, it is extensively fished commercially, and is popular as a game fish. The fresh or frozen flesh of tuna is widely regarded as a delicacy in most areas. Canned tuna, in edible oils, in brine, in water, and in various sauces, was first produced in Australia in 1903, and quickly became popular.

Freshly Picked Apricots

The apricot was known in Armenia during ancient times, and has been cultivated there for so long that it is often thought to have originated there, but origin of the apricot is disputed and unsettled. According to the Soviet botanist Nikolai Vavilov, its center of origin would be the Chinese region, where the domestication of the apricot would have taken place. Apricots have been cultivated in Persia since antiquity, and dried ones were an important commodity on Persian trade routes. Disputes aside, the benefits of apricot are rarely denied by any. In fact, it’s as popular raw as it is cooked. 100 grams of fresh apricots contain 12% vitamin C, 12% vitamin A, and 6% potassium of your daily vitamin needs (The Reference Daily Intake (RDI). Now that you know a bit more about these delicious fruits, pick your difficulty level, click start and enjoy today's puzzle!

Pistachios

In this new jigsaw puzzle you will have to piece back together lots and lots of pistachios. The pistachio, a member of the cashew family, is a small tree originally from Central Asia and the Middle East. The tree produces seeds that are featured in this jigsaw.The kernels are often eaten whole, either fresh or roasted and salted, and are also used in pistachio ice cream, kulfi, spumoni, historically in Neapolitan ice cream, pistachio butter and confections such as baklava, pistachio chocolate, pistachio biscotti and cold cuts such as mortadella. Some people even make pistachio salad, which includes fresh pistachios or pistachio pudding, whipped cream, and canned fruit.

Brown Beech Mushrooms

In today's puzzle we feature a bunch of Brown Beech mushrooms(Hypsizygus tessellatus or shimeji). Also known as Beech Mushrooms or BeechBrown Clamshell Mushroom -these edible mushroom are native to East Asia but are now cultivated also in Europe, North America and Australia.

Freshly Backed Cinnamon Rolls

A cinnamon roll is a sweet roll served commonly in Northern Europe and North America. Its main ingredients are flour, cinnamon, sugar, and butter, which provide a robust and sweet flavor. In some places, it is eaten as a breakfast food and is served with cream cheese or icing. The size of a cinnamon roll varies from place to place.

Fresh Pomegranates

As intact arils or juice, pomegranates are used in baking, cooking, juice blends, meal garnishes, smoothies, and alcoholic beverages, such as cocktails and wine. Pomegranate juice can be sweet or sour, but most fruits are moderate in taste. Pomegranate seeds are used as a spice known as anar dana, most notably in Indian and Pakistani cuisine. In Turkey, pomegranate sauce is used as a salad dressing, to marinate meat, or simply to drink straight. The name pomegranate derives from medieval Latin pomum "apple" and gronotum "seeded". Botanically, the edible pomegranate fruit is a berry.