Delicious figs

It is best to eat figs raw. It is enough to cut the fruit in half and scoop out the pulp with a teaspoon or eat it with the peel if it is not very hard.

The fact is that a fig is essentially an inverted flower, and it cannot be pollinated in the usual way. A special type of blastophagous wasp copes with this: the wasp climbs inside, losing its wings along the way, and lays eggs.

The fact is that every ripe fig fruit contains the remains of fig wasps - the only pollinating insects for this species. Since the wasp belongs to the animal world, then a fig with digested remains inside is not exactly a plant. An extreme form of veganism is fruitarianism.

The dried fruit contains several times more nutrients, but also several times more calories. The healthy norm for both fresh and dried figs is no more than 2-3 fruits per day.

First figs of the season!

Did you know that not all figs require a wasp for pollination? It’s a big misconception.

While certain varieties of figs such as “caprifigs” rely on wasps to pollinate them, a symbiotic relationship which kills the wasp and absorbs its body into the fruit itself, the overwhelming majority of figs sold in America are self-pollinating common figs (like Brown Turkey) and do not require wasps.