FRUITS

AMAZING FACTS ABOUT FRUITS

1.                The study of fruits is called POMOLOGY.

2.                A banana is not a fruit, it is a herb!

3.               Being easy to digest and highly nutritious, these are the first fruits offered to babies.

4.                Strawberries are the only fruit with seeds on the outside. There are 200 seeds in an average strawberry.

5.                Red-coloured fruits keep your heart strong.

6.                Orange-coloured fruits tend to keep your eyes healthy.

7.                 Yellow-coloured fruits prevent you from getting sick.

8.                 Green-coloured fruits help in making your bones and teeth strong.

9.                 Purple and blue fruits help enhance memory.

10.            Orangutans love eating mangoes! Mangoes are the most loved and the No. 1 fruit in the world.

11.            Dark green veggies have more vitamin C when compared to light-coloured veggies.

12.            Apples stay afloat in water as they are 25 percent air.

13.            A kiwi has two times the vitamin C present in an orange.

14.            7000 different kinds of apples are grown all around the globe!

15.            Pineapples are actually berries and it’s ripening can be speeded up by making it stand upside down (leafy side down).

16.            Horticulturists are of the opinion that banana was the first fruit on earth.

17.            Dried fruits have more calories than fresh fruits as the process of drying reduces the water content and volume.

18.            Half a cup of figs have the same amount of calcium as half a cup of milk.

19.            Eggplants are actually fruits and not veggies. In fact, they are botanically known as berries.

20.            The seeds of lychee are poisonous and should not be consumed.

21.            A cucumber is not a vegetable but a fruit.

22.            Tomatoes are not a veggie but a fruit. They are regarded as the world’s most popular fruit and have more genes than humans.

23.            Eating an apple is a more reliable method of staying awake than consuming a cup of coffee as it gives you more energy. The natural sugar in an apple is more potent than the caffeine in coffee.

24.            There’s a tree called SALAD TREE that sprouts 3 to 7 different fruits in the same tree.

25.            One pomegranate can hold more than 1000 seeds.

26.            The stalk, rind or skin of a fruit is typically more nutritious than the actual fruit. So, if you peel your fruits before eating them, you may be making a nutritional mistake.

27.            Apples, peaches and raspberries are all members of the rose family.

28.            Drinking Grapefruit juice while taking some prescription medications can cause instant overdose and death.

29.            The COCO DE MER palm tree has the earth’s largest fruit, weighing 42 kg and seeds weighing 17 kg.

30.            Pumpkins and avocados are not vegetables. They are fruits.

31.            According to one study, avocados are the most nutritious fruits in the world.

32.            Square Watermelons are grown by Japanese farmers for easier stack and store.

33.            An avocado never ripens on the tree, so farmers can use trees as storage and keep avocados fresh for up to seven months.

34.            Canned pumpkin isn't actually pumpkin. Even purees that advertise as "100 percent pumpkin" are actually made of a range of different winter squashes.

35.            It's illegal for supermarkets in France to waste food. Supermarkets must either compost or donate unsold or nearly expired goods to charity.

36.            A banana is a berry.

37.            Garlic helps slow down the aging process.

38.            Bananas are a natural sleep aid because they contain melatonin, which helps regulate the body’s natural rhythms.

39.            Due to the way a rotten apple releases ethylene (which accelerates rotting), one bad apple really does ruin the whole bunch

40.       Early explorers used watermelons as canteens to carry their water supplies.

41.            Adding salt on pineapples make it sweeter.

42.            A bunch of bananas is called a “hand”, while a single banana is called a “finger”.

43.            The avocado is the world’s most nutritious fruit with over 25 essential nutrients.

44.            Avocadoes are poisonous to birds, cats, dogs and rabbits.

45.            Eating bananas is a natural cure to reduce the effects of stress and anxiety.

46.            The pine berry is a white strawberry that tastes like a pineapple.

47.            Cherries can cause cancer cells to commit suicide.

48.            Carrots were originally purple in colour, changing in the 17^th Century to orange with newer varieties.

49.            Grapes relax your blood vessels.

50.            An avocado has more potassium as a banana.

51.            There are so many different types of apples, if you were to eat a new one every day, it would take almost 20 years to try them all!

52.            In some parts of the world, trained monkeys are used to harvest coconuts.

53.            Because of all the lime juice they would drink, British sea men were called limeys.

54.            Banana plants are not trees, they are actually giant herbs.

55.            Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.

56.            Apple seeds are mildly poisonous, but not enough to be dangerous to humans.

57.            Passion fruit is sweetest when slightly wrinkled.

58.            The inside of a banana peel can be used to polish leather shoes.

59.            Pear trees are able to withstand temperatures as low as -40 degrees Celsius.

60.            Passion fruits were first grown in Brazil.

61.            Oranges are the most commonly grown tree fruit in the world.

62.            You can rub the inside of a banana skin on mosquito bites to stop the itchiness.

63.            The passion fruit flower is the national fruit of Paraguay.

64.            There are over 10,000 varieties of apples grown around the world.

65.            People allergic to latex are highly likely to also be allergic to kiwi fruit.

66.            The coconut palm is sometimes called the “tree of life”.

67.            If you plant a single orange seed you will probably get more than one plant.

68.            In Kerala in South India, coconut flowers must be present during a marriage ceremony.

69.            25% of an apple's volume is air, that’s why they float.

70.            Bananas contain B6, which regulates blood glucose levels and your mood.

71.            Watermelons are 92% water.

72.            Kiwi fruit contains actinidin which can be used to tenderize meat.

73.            Research shows that eating bananas can assist learning.

74.            The largest watermelon ever grown was 262 pounds, or 119 KG.

75.            Bananas are high in the B-complex vitamins, which help calm the nervous system.

76.            Add half a cup of lemon juice to your laundry to brighten whites.

77.            Over 60 million tons of apples are grown worldwide annually.

78.            Bananas can help fight depression, as they increase levels of serotonin.