What is the Best Fruit?

By: Stirling Tindal

          One of the best tasting and most nutritious sources of food is fruit. Today I will be comparing fruit and determining which is the best. 

          Some of the best fruits are strawberries, oranges, pomegranates, grapes, apples, and bananas. Each of these fruits have an extremely juicy and satisfying taste. I will be judging these off of their ease of eating, taste, and how filling they are. 

          Bananas are a great fruit in sports because of their potassium. They are very easy to eat with only having to take off the peel. It has more of a bland taste but still a good flavor. Bananas will fill you up pretty well and are great for more situations than just being hungry.

          I never had a pomegranate until recently but was very surprised as to how it tasted. It is one of the sweetest fruits I’ve had. The only problem with it is that you have to eat around little seeds. Plus there is not much fruit around the seed so it doesn’t really fill you up at all. Pomegranates are still a great fruit but the seeds are the main thing holding it back.

          Grapes are a great snack and can be frozen for a different taste. I prefer grapes thawed and I also only like purple grapes. I’m not a fan of the sour taste or the green and the crunchy feeling of the frozen ones. They are very easy to eat and have a great taste however they are not something you’ll want to eat to fill you up.

          Apples are a classic fruit. When you think of the word fruit you think of apples. There are many different kinds of apples. A good apple is one of the best things ever but it’s very rare to find it. They are super easy to eat and can fill you up pretty well, but their taste can be very bland or perfect. Most of the time it is bland and that’s what holds down apples from being the best.

           Oranges are one of the best tasting fruits. All oranges taste good unlike apples. Oranges also will fill you up if it’s the right size. It would be the perfect fruit if it weren’t for its breakable shield that it has for a skin. It shouldn’t take me more than five minutes to open a fruit and stab the inside of my fingernail with its skin. Oranges are so close to being the best if it had no peel.

          Strawberries are magnificent. There is no other way to describe them. Strawberries’ taste is so sweet and the texture is perfect. They are one of the easiest to eat and have a little stem to hold them. On top of that, it is probably the most filling of fruit I know. Strawberries are nearly perfect and are by far my favorite fruit. If I see a platter full of every fruit, I will be eating all of the strawberries first.