peach

Picked warm from the tree, this Southern belle's sun-kissed flesh is considered reminiscent of a woman's curves.

In ancient China, the juicy flesh bursting from the peach's lightly fuzzed skin was believed to hold magical properties. In Japan, blushing brides hold peach blossoms in celebration of fertility. Poet William Fahey compared the ripe, cleft, pink fruits to the plunge of cleavage so worshipped in the paintings of the French Impressionist, Renoir.

But the peach's finest attributes are actually in its kiss, so to speak. Packed with vitamins and primary nutrients, peaches offer potassium, phosphorus, iron, A and C-all key ingredients to enhance “performance.”