Apples are included in the daily diet of many people, being not only a source of vitamins but also just a delicious fruit. However, few people, crunching a juicy red-sided fruit, think about the benefits that it brings to the body.
- The average apple has about 80 calories.
- According to archaeological finds, people have been growing apple trees since about 8,500 years ago.
- Apple peel is high in healthy fiber to aid digestion.
- Apple orchards cover an area of about five million hectares on the surface of our planet.
- Apples lower blood cholesterol levels.
- The apple symbol is very widespread in heraldry; it flaunts on eighty coats of arms.
- Apples tone the body no worse than coffee.
- If the apple quickly darkened at the cut, then it is good.
- There are more than seven thousand varieties of apples in the world, but only about a hundred of them go on sale.
- The oldest apple tree in the world grows in the United States, it was planted in 1647, and still bears fruit.
- For medieval alchemists, the apple was a symbol of knowledge.
- The heaviest apple ever grown weighed about 1.3 kilograms.
- The apple is the most frequently mentioned fruit in mythology.
- The Russian Queen Elizabeth could not stand apples and forbade her courtiers to eat them.
- The homeland of apples is the territory of modern Kazakhstan.
- The apple tree was the first tree that humans cultivated.
- The world’s first apple-producing country is China.
- Apples are a quarter of air, and therefore do not sink in water.
- Apples contain a lot of vitamins B and C.
