Here is the artist's rendition of what a Tree of 40 Fruit ... of the different trees flow into each other so that they share a vascular system. Other times, Van Aken uses a type of grafting ...

There are many different types of sugars we add to our baking or hot drinks such as white sugar, brown sugar ... their sources (from sugarcane, beet, fruit, nectar, palm or coconut saps), flavour ...

To add color to your holiday meals, include a variety of different types of fruits and vegetables, add vegetables to your recipes when possible, bake using fruit, and use a mixture of leafy greens ...

Add this to your truth-is-stranger-than-fiction file: an art professor in upstate New York is modifying plum trees so that each can bear not just one, but up to 40 varieties of stone fruit.