MOLLY'S
DELICIOUS
APPLE FACTS!
Mollie’s Delicious (created from Gravenstine &
Ginger Gold) is a large, conical apple three-fourths red over
a cream background. Good off the tree, this apple improves
dramatically in the cooler to a deliciously sweet dessert
fruit.
Apples are a member of the rose family.
Americans eat approximately 19.6 pounds of fresh apples annually,
compared to about 46 pounds consumed annually by residents
of European countries.
The most popular variety of apple in the United States is
the Red Delicious.
An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The
differences in flavor are caused by their smell. To prove
this - pinch your nose and take a bite from each. They will
all taste sweet.
More than half of all apples grown in the United States
for fresh eating come from orchards in Washington state.
One apple has five grams of fiber, supplying 20 percent of
the daily fiber recommendation.
Fresh apples float because 25 percent of their volume is
air.
To find out more apple facts that you never knew,
visit:
http://www.allaboutapples.com/facts.htm
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/apples/facts.html
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