June is Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month!Pique your audience's interest in these tasty foods by introducing some riddles from Hollis Bass, MEd, RD, LD. Hollis designed this quiz to highlight especially nutritious fruits and vegetables. In fact, the answers to her riddles just happen to score among the top 20 fruits and vegetables for antioxidant power, as measured by the Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity (ORAC) method.The ORAC test is one way that researchers determine the antioxidant activity of various foods.After you solve the riddles, stock up on fresh fruits and veggies. Summer is the easiest time to follow MyPlate's advice and fill half your plate with fruits and vegetables. After all, at this time of year, so many fresh fruits and veggies are in season and at their peak of flavor.But enough about background -- let's get to the riddles...Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month Quiz

1. You love me in a muffin and as dessert, too; small, plump, and juicy, my color is blue.________________________
2. Watch out for thorns when you pick this treat; it's a berry, both black and sweet.________________________
3. With my reputation, I'm a “stinking rose;” vampire-slayers wear me under their clothes.________________________
4. Growing in wind, snow, sleet, or hail, you should try this green called _____.________________________
5. Breakfast, lunch, dessert, or dinner, I'm a great berry that's always a winner!________________________
6. A leafy green that’s tried and true; try it raw or fresh-cooked too.________________________
7. This “baby cabbage” is named for a city in Europe; don’t wrinkle your nose, just eat it all up.________________________
8. Eat this for breakfast, lunch, or snack; eat it in a corner, just like Jack.________________________
9. I’m a handsome white veggie that's truly a flower. I remind you of broccoli and bring phyto-power!________________________
10. People eat green flowers, which are oh-so-delicious; here's the most popular veggie cruciferous.________________________
11. Red and sweet, I’m a vegetable treat.________________________
12. In popularity, I’m number three; apples and bananas are more loved than me.________________________
13. Red or green, I grow on a vine; besides a great snack, I make raisins and wine.________________________
14. My cousins are hot, but I’m red and sweet. On tacos and salads, I just can’t be beat.________________________
15. Small, round, and juicy, still I’m no berry. Life’s the pits without a _____.________________________
16. A fuzzy brown bird gave me my name. Without my green color, fruit salad's not the same.________________________
17. Don’t go on a diet just to eat me. I’m a citrus fruit, tasty as can be!________________________
18. I make you cry, but you’re not sad. Peel me and use me -- your heart will be glad.________________________
19. Canned, popped, or on the cob, here's a little kernel that can do any job.________________________
20. Named for an egg, classed as a berry, I'm a purple veggie that will make your heart merry.________________________

Answers: 1. Blueberry, 2. Blackberry, 3. Garlic, 4. Kale, 5. Strawberry,6. Spinach, 7. Brussels sprouts, 8. Plum, 9. Cauliflower, 10. Broccoli,11. Beets, 12. Orange, 13. Grapes, 14. Red pepper, 15. Cherry,16. Kiwi fruit, 17. Grapefruit, 18. Onion, 19. Corn, 20. Eggplant.By Hollis Bass, MEd, RD, LD[shopify embed_type="collection" shop="nutrition-education-store.myshopify.com" product_handle="new-products"]