The world’s most interesting food?

Here are some weird and wonderful truths about apples.

• Fresh apples float.
• One large apple has 5g of fibre.
• Kiwis eat on average 15kg of apples and apple products each year.
• Apples are a member of the rose family.
• The largest apple picked weighed 1.4kg.
• Apples ripen 6-10 times faster at room temperature than if the fruit is refrigerated.
• Two-thirds of the fibre and many of the beneficial antioxidants are found in the skin.
• Royal Gala, Braeburn and Fuji are the largest three varieties by volume grown in New Zealand.
• It takes the energy of 50 leaves to grow one apple.
• The seed pocket in an apple is called a ‘carpel’.
• The world’s longest apple peel was 52.6m long.

Source: Apples for Health, Bayer Crop Science, and Pipfruit New Zealand