superfruit

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English

Etymology

From super- +‎ fruit.

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Noun

superfruit (plural superfruits)

  1. A superfood that is a fruit; any fruit supposed to confer remarkable health benefits.
    Goji berries are often marketed as a superfruit.
    • 1986, Walter G. Oleksy, Miracles of Genetics‎, Childrens Press, →ISBN, page 17:
      This lemon, grown by Robert Jennings of Downey, California, weighs five pounds and is eight inches tall and twenty-three inches around. Genetic engineering could produce such superfruits consistently.
    • 2005, Newsweek‎, Newsweek, page 79:
      Among his picks: Superfruits. With summer long gone, it may not seem a good time to be pitching fruit. But three of Pratt's new power foods are fruits that are currendy in season — pomegranates, kiwis and apples.
    • 2009, Nancy Harmon Jenkins, The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook: A Delicious Alternative for Lifelong Health‎, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 410:
      Pomegranates, those cheerful round red fruits often seen in wintertime fruit bowls, have quickly gained a reputation as superfruits, so thoroughly packed are they with antioxidants, especially deep red anthocyanins.

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