The fruit group is an important part of the food pyramid.  Fruits give you the nutrient Vitamin C.  The health benefits of Vitamin C are that it helps heal cuts and bruises and helps fight infections.  You should have between two and four servings of fruit each day.  Examples of fruits are watermelons, apples, oranges, mangos, kiwis, cantaloupes, and bananas.  Fruits also give you vitamins for growth and healthy skin.  Fruits such as apples can even clean your teeth!  You may not know this but oranges, grapefruit, lemons, and limes are something called citrus fruits.  You can eat fruit in four different ways.  You can eat them fresh, canned, frozen or dried, but fresh fruit has the most vitamins.

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