We'll go through bags of clementines like the mandarin Cuties many weeks. And we like apples in several varieties. We have berries with dinner most nights - blueberries (my neighbor has been sharing his this last month and they are wonderful) and I bought one shrub that the deer haven't discovered yet. It in a big pot on my patio and young, but has been producing about a dozen ripe berries each day that I wander out and eat in the mornings. But raspberries and strawberries too. DH has a banana every day while I don't usually think of it. I don't feel like we might eat enough fruit and I do keep canned peaches and pears on hand.

Peaches don't grow well here this close to the cool ocean. I gave up on nectarines this season, I could not find them to buy in either white or yellow fleshed that I could get loose from the stones even when said to be cling free. They were anything but and I would bruise them just trying cut to put on a plate. The only alternative was to eat them like an apple.

Barlett pers, which just came into season now. Any kind of berry. Peaches or any type of stone fruit just does not do well close to ocean here.

Love peaches and nectarines. Fortunately we have pick your own orchards nearby.

I gorge myself on cherries when they are in season.

Peaches! They are in season right now and I can’t get enough. I also love local strawberries when they are in season, which is about as long as the blink of an eye.

Cherries.I used to buy these huge deep red cherries when I was in England, I had never eaten a fresh cherry. I was hooked. I got the original lot on a whim as I walked to the public pool. I passed through a market. I had a neighbor years ago that had a tree that produced similar cherries. Yum. I have to make do with what ever is selling during cherry season now.

We eat a lot of fruit. A bowl of cut fruit of various kinds is part of most meals.

Avocados

Blueberries, cherries, watermelon, cantaloupe, raspberries, avocados, bananas, , strawberries, peaches, plums, pears.

Edited to add: lemons, limes, and grapes but mangos I'm not crazy about.

Envious of those who can grow things like cherries, peaches and pears - too hot here - not enough chill hours - or space.

Like lily, I don't think I could pick just one - it's usually what's in season and at peak flavor. I do love sweet cherries and I like nectarines better than peaches. Navel oranges are another fave when they're in season.

Right now is mango harvest season for a generous neighbor's trees, so I'm eating mangoes daily. They're huge, juicy, extremely sweet, and I add lime juice from my tree.

I used to have the best tangerine tree (Ponkan), but we lost all our citrus to greening disease a number of years back. I have only one wild-ish Key lime now.

I understand the cherry crops this year were negatively impacted by weather, so they're not as abundant, and cost a bit more as well. So far, I've only found organic cherries a couple of times, and pretty sure that's over now 😕

Lots of my fave veggies are fruits too 😀

Good cherries (I'm picky - they need to be large, firm and sweet), plums/pluots/apricots (same proviso) and passion fruit.

Edit to add - pineapple. And limes, only if in the form of juice in a gin and tonic. A periodic treat.

2nd edit - I left out mentioning pippin apples.

I pretty much love most fruits. Berries, peaches, cherries, lemons and limes are top favorites. I wouldn’t be too upset if I could never have bananas…except for maybe Martha Stewart’s banana bread.

Fresh peaches! Sad to sah peach season is now over here and I already miss them. We still are able to get some halfway-decent ones in the grocery store for now. My second favorite is a good papaya, and the only good ones I’ve eaten are in Hawaii. I’m sure California likely has some decent ones, but our grocery store varieties are never good.

I have a couple faves. Love pineapple and apples. Blood oranges are good and pears occasionally.

Mamey and cherimoya are my favorites. I grow cherimoya, but here I can only get mamey paletas - not fresh mamey. I like guanabana as a substitute for cherimoya, and I can get guanabana licuados at the farmer's market here.

I also love mangoes (which I grew when I lived in Venice - no room here) and Meyer lemons.

pineapples first, peaches a close second.

Papayas are my favorite. Then mangoes, then a good orange. Really hard to choose, it's wild blueberry picking season here, they're the best !

Splurged on these last year and they were awesome!

https://hawaiipapaya.com

Raspberries hands down. Then nectarines and apricots. And I am very partial to dark/black cherries. Other than a couple of raspberry plants, I grow none of these myself. But this is a huge fruit growing state and finding high quality organic fruits in season is dead easy.

In winter, I focus on citrus - Satsuma mandarins, which I consume in quantity, and pink/ruby red grapefruits.

With the exception of raspberries that I eat year round, it is local fruit in season first. I will drive a considerable distance to find my favorite apple variety (Gravenstein), which does not have a commercial market and a very short sales season. But some local orchardists do carry them.

I also seem to go through an awful lot of lemons...but I don't exactly eat them :-)

Peaches and plums are at the top of my list, esp if homegrown and tree ripened here which isn't easy when going organic. Watermelons, cantaloupes, & pears do well and are best vine/tree ripened. Tomatoes, if considered as a fruit is good. I like apples too but cannot grow them due to being surrounded by cedar trees (rust) and too many squirrels. Fortunately pears stay rock solid until the last minute so squirrels aren't too interested, but they'll eat a green apple in a heart beat, their last if it were up to me, nyuk

Tart/sour cherries and local peaches in season. Local Concord or Coronation grapes are also a favourite as is lime which I eat every day

What ever is in season! FRESH picked anything, where it grows, is beyond comparison to what one is forced to purchase in a store.

Melons.Honeydew, Athena cantaloupes, watermelons, etc. Served very cold

Raspberries are #1. I like peaches, but only got one good one out of four separate purchases this year. I like honeydew melon, but we two would never finish a whole one. (Not fond of other melons, like musk/cantaloupe or watermelon.) We *almost* finish a 3# bag of clementines.

Pineapple lovers: Do you have tinnitus? Does eating pinrapple or drinking the juice daily really help stop it? (This was mentioned in the syndicated column The Peoples Pharmacy.)

Honeydew and cantaloupe melons, love! We also really like pineapple, occasionally. Oranges are for zest or juice. After living in Valencia for a year and having oranges daily, I just can't eat an orange.

any type of berry

bing cherries - firm & dark, nectarines/peaches, plums, pineapple, granny smith apple then honeycrisp, orange, banana, mango

really the only fruit i can pass up is: kiwi & pears. i like melons, but most times they are not good, either bland or have a strong taste ( Cantaloupe/honeydew) do love watermelon in season

I was going to say peaches, but plums might be my favorite. The other fruit I love is canteloupe. I do not like honeydew at all, never did.

So my 3 favorites are plums, peaches, canteloupe

Tree ripened apricots.

I adore watermelon but tragically in my old age I developed an intolerance to it. I am really good at picking out a good watermelon but it does me no good at all. I can still eat cantaloupe and honeydew. Good actually ripe ones are hard to find though. I once had cantaloupe grown for the fancy Asian market-these were the culls. The flavor was to die for.

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I never heard of pineapples curing tinnitus, but I do grow them in my back yard. I have to cover the fruit with wire mesh when they are almost ripe, or else critters will start eating them.

I had a couple of fig trees in Venice that my brother (who had them sent to me from Texas) said were Texas Red figs, but I don't know if that is a valid name. Anyway, they were the sweetest figs I have ever had - as sweet as honey - and I loved them. I made quite a bit of fig preserves with them, and I added Valencia oranges and Meyer lemons from my back yard there to the preserves. Orange is not traditional, but it gave the preserves a good flavor. I gave away most of the preserves that I made, since I seldom eat or use preserves. My father loved them.