Summer is one of the best times to saturate your system with super-nutrients, and stuff yourself to the gills with healthy summer fruits and veggies. Plants are soaking up the sun, funneling all their energy into the next generation -- tasty morsels that will make you stronger, healthier and happier.

What, exactly, is in season during the summer It’s tough to tell. Globalization means an almost endless supply of healthy summer fruits and veggies that denies seasonal variations. When it’s cold up north, summer delights can be shipped from the sunny southern hemisphere.

The end result is a nation (or nations) of northerners with only a vague concept of seasonality.

Fear not, however, for we’re here to tell you what’s in season this summer. Here are healthy summer fruits and veggies for you to enjoy.

"Eat your fruits and vegetables" is one of the tried and true recommendations for a healthy diet. And for good reason.

Eating plenty of vegetables and fruits can help you ward off heart disease and stroke, control blood pressure, prevent some types of cancer, avoid a painful intestinal ailment called diverticulitis, and guard against cataract and macular degeneration, two common causes of vision loss.