FRESNO (AP) -- California's plum growers are receiving a boost from the federal government, which is purchasing $26 million worth of prunes for food banks and nutrition programs. The purchase is part ...

(BPT) – Seeking more plant-based options for healthy aging? This approach is right on track with the 2020-2025 U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) that advocate for greater fruit and vegetable ...

Wrinkles can be cool – if you’re a prune. Many of us have had a long love affair with our crinkly, locally grown prunes, even if they weren’t considered the coolest fruit in the bunch. But that’s ...

What’s in a name? With apologies to Shakespeare’s rose garden: “A prune by any other name would taste as good!” In 2000, the California Prune Board was actively pressuring the Food and Drug ...

Rich Peterson has seen some dramatic changes in the California prune business since he joined the California Dried Plum Board more than two decades ago. Back then, California growers produced more ...

ROSEVILLE, CALIF. — California prunes are the star ingredients in Fourpoints, a new energy bar designed to offer hours of sustained energy, the company said. The 2.5-oz bars provide 11 to 13 grams of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images What is a prune? Chances are you haven’t given this question too much thought—after all, when foods are as familiar ...

YUBA CITY, Calif. -- Pity the poor prune. Celebrated for years as one of California's most important crops, the prune this year will find itself on the sidelines, wrinkled, dried out and ignored.

If you came up with a better prune, would the world beat a path to your door? That’s what Jim Doyle, a now-retired UC Davis fruit breeder, was hoping in 1992 when he crossed Improved French, the ...

The most famous prune in the world, the pruneau d’Agen, has been a celebrated product of southwest France since at least the 1500s, outliving — and even thriving because of — several nearly ...

SAN DIEGO — Studies show that routinely eating together as a family promotes physical and mental well-being. Cooking and sharing meals with family and friends is also a way to build connections and ...

Wrinkles can be cool – if you’re a prune. Many of us have had a long love affair with crinkly prunes, even if they aren’t considered the coolest fruit in the bunch. But that’s changing. Interest in ...