Raise your hand if you eat one or more of these in your day:

• Apples
• Oranges
• Banana
• Pear (maybe if you’re feeling dangerous)

According to www.thefruitpages.com, a complete online fruit guide, one should eat five to nine servings a day. There are thousands of species to taste, and yet most of us never depart from the standards.

This New Year, go out there and try something different. Check out these samplings from the spectrum of fancy fruit and how to consume them. They're apples and oranges to, well, apples and oranges!