Kiwi

Stigan Antioxidant, Fruits

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  Fortunately New Zealand has shared this tangy, fuzzy fruit with the rest of the world. One of the kiwi’s great advantages is that it is a great traveler: It not only ripens after harvest, but this ripening process … Read More

Honeydew

Stigan Antioxidant, Fruits

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  Honeydew is the best-known winter melon variety, sweet and succulent. In fact, honeydew is the sweetest of all the melons when ripe. These melons have a smooth, pastel pale-green skin with sweet, more vibrant pale-green flesh. Honeydews can … Read More

Grapes

Stigan Antioxidant, Fruits, Glycemic Index, Vegetable

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  There is both romance and convenience wrapped up in these healthy small rounds. They feature semi-translucent flesh encased by a smooth skin. Some contain edible seeds while others are seedless. Like blueberries, a protective, whitish bloom covers grapes. … Read More

Grapefruit

Stigan Antioxidant, Fruits, Glycemic Index, Superfood

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  Remember when your mom fed you a half grapefruit for breakfast or the 1980s Grapefruit Diet? If yes, then you might have memories of this tropical citrus fruit’s slightly bitter taste. Grapefruit is usually about the size of … Read More

Pears

Stigan Antioxidant, Autumn, Fruits, Glycemic Index

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  The pear is to autumn as the strawberry is to summer. A great fruit to start of packing lunches with nutrition & convenience! Pears are sweet and aromatic and ripen to holda sweet juicy meat beneath a soft … Read More

Cranberries

Stigan Autumn, Fruits

For some reason most cooks do not remember the cranberry’s virtues until fall, mainly at Thanksgiving and Christmas. These berries are splendid, vividly coloured small berries just bursting with nutrition. With their brilliant antioxidant power it’s no wonder they are cousin to blueberries. The cranberry is a round, very tart and tangy, bright red fruit can grow wild as a … Read More

Plums

Stigan Antioxidant, Fruits, Glycemic Index, Mid To Late Summer

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  Prune Plums Mmm – the Okanagan plum is so smooth and juicy sweet tasting! With a ranging appearance from yellow to almost black, the flesh can taste tart to very sweet and juicy. As a rule of thumb, … Read More

Nectarines

Stigan Antioxidant, Early To Mid Summer, Fruits

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  Aah! Summer fruit – Ralph’s pride and joy! Nectarines are such a refined treat: an elegant flavour combined with a juicy softness and amazing aroma. Ralph goes straight to the South Okanagan/Similkameen regions of BC to bring you … Read More

Apples

Stigan Autumn, Early To Mid Summer, Fruits, Mid To Late Summer

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  A favourite among school lunches, apples are beautiful, sweet and delicious with its built-in carry case to travel well. Sweet, crisp and juicy, apples have long been a fall favourite of many. Although apples appear in produce markets … Read More

Peaches

Stigan Antioxidant, Early To Mid Summer, Fruits, Glycemic Index, Mid To Late Summer

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  Nothing says “summer” better than the juice of a fresh peach running down your chin! A round, sweet juicy stone fruit with a soft, fuzzy cream or yellow surface skin flushed with red. Perhaps the most celebrated of … Read More