Seasonal calendar: what fruits and vegetables to eat in May

We enter the equator of spring and everything is life around us. It is a time of expansion and fruitfulness in which nature wastes vitalitywhich is reflected in the vegetable garden.

We will not lack fruits or vegetables to continue giving a special support to our liver and to our gallbladder, the organs that continue to rule in this age and that most require our attention.

In this phase of expansion it is not strange that our emotions are a little more altered. In this strategy of supporting the liver, it is not enough to enhance the light and cleansing foods.

It is also important keep stress at baybecause it especially affects this organ and reduces our vitality.

The increase in temperatures should also be reflected in less use of the stove: baked, fried and long stews should gradually give way to lighter cooking such as boilinghe steam or the quick stews. It is also appropriate to bet on pressed, raw foodlight soups and macerated fruits.

What foods are in season in May?

The seasonal fruit list that you can include in your shopping basket continues to increase. Some of those fruits are worth taking advantage of now because, as soon as the heat hits, they will disappear. Others that are beginning to mature will now be with us well into the summer.

we keep finding late oranges and grapefruits, pineapple, avocados, lemons and bananas… and, of course, the seasonal spring fruits earlier and that still resist, as strawberries and strawberries.

But the star are the juicy ones stone fruits, which from this month arrive with all its flavor. The loquats they are still in full season, increasingly tasty. They are also joined by the long-awaited apricots and, later in the month, cherries.

Little by little the first plums and nectarinesa preview of another spring and summer star: the peaches. We will be able to enjoy the mango, the first melons, the papaya, even the fresh lychee.

The renewal of vegetables and vegetables is increasingly noticeable. Sorrel, spring garlic, radishes, carrots, asparagus and all the pods –peas, broad beans, green beans…– are in good shape.

The new potatoes also arrive and fresh herbs. And in the forests, the moisture left by the spring rains continues to provide us with delicious mushrooms to include in stir-fries.

Although we associate mushrooms more with autumn, it is possible to find good mushrooms in spring. In addition to the morels that we have included here, others grow, for example, senderuelas, oyster mushrooms, St. George’s mushrooms or marzuelos.

12 seasonal fruits and vegetables: add them to your menu!

These are the properties of the novelties that this spring month brings, with proposals to incorporate them into your diet in the tastiest and healthiest way: