Ever bite into a delicious-looking apple, only to be rewarded with a chunk of mealy pulp? Or take a swig of milk, and get something lumpy in your mouth? Yeah, yuck. Well, it turns humans have company ...

This time of year ushers in a wonderful harvest of fruit; figs, pears, quince, persimmons, apples, damsons, and plums start to fall to the ground and await collection by us gardeners to bake and stew ...

Fruit flies, the uninvited guests who crash your kitchen like it's happy hour at a banana peel. These tiny pests are drawn to ripe, rotting or fermenting fruits and veggies, but they can also appear ...

It turns out, a maggot's preference for rotting fruit has as much to do with texture as taste. Researchers are looking into figuring out why and... Not too hard, not too soft, rotting fruit is just ...