When is National Fruit Cocktail Day?
Saturday May 13thNational Fruit Cocktail Day on May 13th may be a way to raise the calorie count if you've been enjoying the food holidays regularly. Many of us have childhood memories of a fruit cocktail that was often served with a meal.
Fruit cocktail is made from a blend of fruit or syrup with a liquid of its juices or syrup. We can also make it fresh with berries and other fruits while we buy it in cans and individual serving cups. Fruit cocktail is a healthy fruit option in classrooms and buffets alike, and at buffets.
Even though the word cocktail appears in the name, the fruit cocktail contains no alcohol. The term itself refers to a mixture and can be food or spirits. For example, the secondary definition of a cocktail is "An appetizer made by combining pieces of food, such as fruit or seafood."
The USDA has ruled that canned fruit cocktail must have certain amounts of pears, grapes, cherries, peaches, and pineapples in the United States.
William Vere Cruess of the University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, and Herbert Gray of the Barron-Gray Packing Company, San Jose, California, have both been credited with fruit cocktail development.
