12 seasonal fruits and vegetables to eat in October

In this month we delve into the autumn and nature begins to visibly change. Fruits that mark the takeoff of the new season ripen, some of which are short-season and can only be enjoyed now. Vegetables suitable for entering into a slower and more concentrated cooking.

It’s time to strengthen our defenses and prepare our body for the coming months. And one way to do that, if it hasn’t already been done, is by helping the purification of the organism in the initial phase of the season, before the cold arrives to stay.

Another is including in our diet the great variety of seasonal foods rich in antioxidants that autumn offers us. Without forgetting that, as the temperatures drop and the days become more humid, the body will ask us warm and energetic food that help you adapt naturally to the climate.

The organs to which more attention should be paid according to traditional Chinese medicine, which takes both the cycles of nature and seasonal changes into account, are the lungs and large intestine.

For them he recommends increase consumption of white and green foodsthe spiciness of garlic, leeks and onions, and the energy of cereals and legumes.

What fruits and vegetables are in season in October?

The summer fruits, apart from some vineyard peaches, have almost completely disappeared, or have lost that intense sweetness that they gave us last month. Yes, the fruits that marked the end of summer are maintained, such as grapes or the figs.

In return more and more arrive apples and autumn pear varietiessuch as the conference or the comice pear, along with a wide variety of fruits that totally change the landscape of greengrocers.

Among the fruits that are now inaugurating their season, one of the most anticipated is the grenade. They also ripen quinces and the first citrus fruits arrive, the tangerines, at first greener, then more orange. Its clearly autumnal colors are a statement of principles.

Towards the end of the month, the custard apples and the first persimmons will arrive, although sometimes we will have to wait a little longer to find them at their point.

Many fruits also ripen in the forest, such as chestnutsrose hips, sloes, strawberry trees… And, of course, the stars of the season: the mushrooms. Boletus, trumpets of death, senderuelas, oyster mushrooms, chanterelles, chanterelles… You have a lot to choose from beyond mushrooms.

Some fruits originating from other latitudes and that have adapted well to our climate in some areas are now in season. It is the case of avocadoof the mango cultivated on the Andalusian coast, from the papayathe pineapple or a delicacy that until recently could not be found fresh in our country: the fresh datewhich is grown in Elche.

As for vegetables, there will also be a renewal in the shopping basket. You will continue to find green beans, peppers, lettuce, zucchini… But the pumpkins and some cabbagesespecially leaf sprouts.

The energy of nature descends and contracts, so it is not surprising that the ban is also open for all kinds of roots, bulbs and tubers. You will find, with all its energy concentrated underground, leeks thicker than summer ones, fully ripe onions and potatoes, parsnips, beets… and the star tuber of the season: the sweet potato.