Brown Figs

Brown Figs are identified by the color of the skin of the fruit. If your fruit is dark colored, as opposed to a lighter green colored, then you are working with dark colored figs!

Fig Nutrition Facts

Fresh figs are cholesterol-free, sodium-free, and fat free. Figs contains a good amount of the vitamin B6, which aides a wide variety of biological processes including the biosythesis of major neuro-transmitters such as serotonin. It is debated that a compound called benzaldehyde, which is found in figs, shrinks tumors. Figs are a natural laxative, and they are considered an anti-bacterial and natural laxative.

Recipes

The Brown Fig takes internet collected fig recipes and user submitted fig recipes and collects them into a blog for your cooking curiosity. Please use our Figs Discussion Board to submit us your custom recipes!

Discussion and Community

The Brown fig is an information website and there are many people who pass by looking for help on how to grow, or interested in what other people are doing with their fig growing projects. Please feel free to post your questions and projects to our Fig Community.