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10 Fun Facts About Grapes

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Perhaps many of you love to eat this tiny fruit but taste incredibly amazing, grape. But some of the people make it as wine to drink and it do taste better. However, below are 10 fun facts about this amazing little fruit you should know : 
 
1. Grapes are one of the world’s favorite fruits, regularly listed in the top 10 (other are mangos, bananas and tomatoes). 
 
2. Around the world there are more than 8,000 varieties of grape. There are 7 different grape colors: red, green, white, black, purple, blue and golden. 
 
3. Grapes have been thought to have healing properties since ancient times. In China, wine was mixed with frogs, snakes and other animals to create a cure for illness. 
 
4. America’s oldest grapevine is 400 years old and is in North Carolina. 
 
5. Wine has been made from grapes since 5,000BC. 
 
6. About a quarter of the grapes used in the US come from Chile. 
 
7. While grapes are 80% water, when they become raisins the water content is just 15%. 
 
8. You can get about 15,000 glasses of wine from an acre of grapes. 
 
9. 72 million tons of grapes are produced around the world each year. 
 
10. With more than 200, California’s Napa Valley has the world’s highest concentration of wineries. 
 
How many of those facts did you already know? 
 
credit to <a href="http://www.kiawahresort.com/blog/kiawah-island/2012/02/29/10-fun-facts-about-grapes/">Kiawah Resort</a>

Perhaps many of you love to eat this tiny fruit but taste incredibly amazing, grape. But some of the people make it as wine to drink and...

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You can go on a 3-day fruit fast to cleanse your body. Just eat fruits and drink fruit juice throughout the 3 days and you will be surprised when your friends tell you how radiant you look! 
 
 
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KIWI: 
 
Tiny but mighty. This is a good source of potassium, magnesium, vitamin E & fiber. Its vitamin C content is twice that of an orange. 
 
APPLE: 
 
An apple a day keeps the doctor away? Although an apple has a low vitamin C content, it has antioxidants & flavonoid which enhances the activity of vitamin C thereby helping to lower the risks of colon cancer, heart attack & stroke. 
 
STRAWBERRY: 
 
Protective Fruit. Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits & protect the body from cancer-causing, blood vessel-clogging free radicals. 
 
ORANGE: 
 
Sweetest medicine, eating 2 to 4 oranges a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent & dissolve kidney stones as well as lessens the risk of colon cancer. 
 
WATERMELON: 
 
Coolest thirst quencher. Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione, which helps boost our immune system. They are also a key source of lycopene - the cancer fighting oxidant. Other nutrients found in watermelon are vitamin C & Potassium. 
 
GUAVA & PAPAYA: 
 
Top awards for vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their high vitamin C content. Guava is also rich in fiber, which helps prevent constipation. Papaya is rich in carotene; this is good for your eyes. 
 
Credit to articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com

You can go on a 3-day fruit fast to cleanse your body. Just eat fruits and drink fruit juice throughout the 3 days and you will be surprised...

Facts About Apple

Perhaps some of you love to eat apple. This is a little bit fun facts about the apple. 
 
 
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<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">Apples are a member of the rose family.</li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">Archeologists have found evidence that humans have been enjoying apples since at least 6500 B.C.</li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">The apple tree originated in an area between the Caspian and the Black Sea.</li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">Apple varieties range in size from a little larger than a cherry to as large as a grapefruit. There are apples that have an aftertaste of pears, citrus, cinnamon, cloves, coconut, strawberries, grapes and even pineapple!</li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">Planting an apple seed from a particular apple will not produce a tree of that same variety. The seed is a cross of the tree the fruit was grown on and the variety that was the cross pollinator.</li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">Apples have five seed pockets or carpels. Each pocket contains seeds. The number of seeds per carpel is determined by the vigor and health of the plant. Different varieties of apples will have different number of seeds.</li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">It takes energy from 50 leaves to produce one apple.</li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">Fresh apples float because 25% of their volume is air (thank goodness, or none of us would have ever experienced bobbing for apples!).</li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">Apples ripen six to ten times faster at room temperature than if they were refrigerated. For optimal storage, apples should be kept at 35-40 degrees with relative humidity of 80-90%.</li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">A bushel of apples weighs approximately 42 pounds, or 19kg. A peck of apples weighs 10.5 pounds, or 4.8kg.</li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">The average U.S. consumer eats an estimated 45 pounds of apples a year. Europeans consumers eat 46 pounds a year.</li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">Sixty percent of the 2002 U.S. apple crop was eaten as fresh fruit, while 39 percent was processed into apple products, and 1 percent was not marketed. Of the 39 percent of the crop that was processed, 18 percent was used in juice and cider; 3 percent was dried; 2 percent was frozen; and 12 percent was canned. Other uses include the making of baby food, apple butter or jelly, and vinegar.</li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">The apple is the official state fruit of Rhode Island, New York, Washington, and West Virginia. The apple blossom (Pyrus coronaria) is the official state flower of Arkansas and Michigan.</li>
<li style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.2em;">The old saying "an apple a day, keeps the doctor away" comes from am old English adage, "To eat an apple before going to bed, will make the doctor beg his bread."</li>
 
 
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