Apples
Apples come in all shades of reds, greens, yellows.
7500 varieties of apples are grown throughout the world.
Apples are fat, sodium, and cholesterol free.
A medium apple is about 80 calories.
Apples are a great source of the fibre pectin. One apple has five grams of fibre.
25 percent of an apple's volume is air. That is why they float.
Apples ripen six to ten times faster at room temperature than if they were refrigerated.
The old saying, “an apple a day, keeps the doctor away”. This saying comes from am old English adage, “To eat an apple before going to bed, will make the doctor beg his bread.”
Don't peel your apple. Two-thirds of the fibre and lots of antioxidants are found in the peel Antioxidants help to reduce damage to cells, which can trigger some diseases.
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