National Eat A Peach Day
Luscious fruit with velvety skin and a sweet aroma, reminding of warm summer days and offering a taste of heaven.
Drive summer produce sales and farmer-market traffic by celebrating peach season with recipe content, in-store promotions, and farm-to-table storytelling.
- Peach recipe roundup: smoothies, pies, grilled peaches—celebrate peak season
- Behind-the-scenes: peach farming from China to your local orchard
- Peach nutrition & wellness angle: antioxidants, fiber, summer health boost
- User-generated content: #NationalEatAPeachDay customer photos & recipes
Like many of the world’s most delicious foods, the peach tree finds its origins deep in the NW region of China in a beautiful area in the foothills. Nestled in between the Tarim Basin and Kunlun Shan mountains this tree is the origin of what are arguably two of the world’s most delectable fruits, the peach, and the nectarine. What few people know is that the nectarine is actually the same species of fruit as the peach!
Peaches botanical name is Prunus persica, which tells us something interesting about its history. You see, the persica name comes from its widespread cultivation in Persia, but as we mentioned that isn’t actually where the peach comes from. It quickly spread throughout Europe and the Mediterranean, and eventually found its way to America in the 16th Century by way of the Spanish Explorers.
By the 19th century cultivation had begun in the Americas, and now it can be found and enjoyed all over the world in infinite varieties, from white peaches to nectarines. Oh, how is it that nectarines and peaches are the same fruit but nectarines are furless? Well now, that’s just a recessive trait in the peach tree that’s been selectively bred for by nectarine farmers. Every year nectarines appear on peach trees as a result, and Eat a Peach Day is the perfect opportunity to enjoy either one!