Hear the word “jujube,” and your thoughts might turn to the classic candy. But over the next several weeks at your local farmers markets, you’ll probably spot mounds of fresh fruit by the same name.

Remember the chewy jujube candy we grew up with it? Well, these are not the confection, but rather the fresh fruit with an exotic name that may have inspired the candy’s name. Jujubes, also known as ...

Remember getting jujube candy at the movie theater? Those odd brown things you’re seeing at the farmers market are very sweet, but they have nothing to do with candy. Jujubes are actually Chinese ...

The original jujube - the real jujube - is a fruit, not a candy. The fruit is hardly known in America, but the Chinese have been growing and eating jujubes for more than 4,000 years. Jujube plants ...

If you’re old enough to remember enjoying a box of Jujubes at the movie theater, you’re old enough to question this article’s title. If not, here’s the scoop. For decades, Jujubes candy was a ...

You may have walked by the jujubes at the farmers market and thought, “Aren’t jujubes a candy?” But jujubes — or Chinese dates, as they are sometimes called — are one of the oldest fruits in the world ...

It looked like no other tree I'd ever seen. It stood about 12 feet tall with short branches and a dense growth of long, weeping compound leaves. The leaves were shiny, medium green and perfect -- not ...