
This can vary by fruit, but you will know a stone fruit is ripe when the flesh starts to become slightly softened and there is no more green skin (like on a mango, when the skin turns from greenish to orange). How do you know when a stone fruit is ripe? There are many varieties of stone fruits out there, but some of the most popular and widely available are: This Peach Gallette is so yummy! Nicole Dubois What fruits have stones? Read on for some more information about this popular group of fruits!

You can even throw stone fruit into a sangria! However you like to enjoy your stone fruits, just make sure they are nice and ripe before you slice into them. Ree Drummond loves to bake with stone fruits: Try her classic cherry pie, peaches and cream shortcakes, and peach-pecan crisp! She also loves to give stone fruits a savory spin, like in her grilled nectarine salad, peach salsa, and peach-whiskey barbecue chicken. Whatever stone fruit you choose, one thing is for sure: It is going to be delicious! Even olives, though we often think of them more as savory, are stone fruits! There are even some fun hybrid stone fruits like pluots (plum + apricot, favoring the plum more) and apriums (apricot + plum, favoring the apricot more). So many delicious fruits like peaches, plums, apricots, dates, mangoes, coconuts, and cherries fall into the stone fruit category.

They're in season starting in early spring and continue though early fall. Stone fruits are a classification of fruits also know as drupes: They have a thin skin and a "stone" in the center, which contains the seed. But what is a stone fruit exactly? Read on for a little stone fruit 101! Is there anything better than a fresh juicy peach on a hot summer day? Or a bowl of ripe cherries or a sweet plum? These are all stone fruits-and they're at their best when the warm weather rolls around.
