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A strawberry is not an actual berry, but a banana is. |
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Orangutans love mangoes |
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Apples float in water because they are 25% air. |
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Tomatoes are a fruit not a vegetable. Tomatoes are the most popular fruits in the world. |
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Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief. |
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An average strawberry has around 200 seeds |
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Pumpkins and avocados are fruits not a vegetable. |
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Dark green vegetables include more vitamin C than light green color vegetables |
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Banana is not a fruit in reality, it is a herb |
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Because bananas are easy to digest and are very nutritious they are the first fruit offered to babies. |
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Osage orange fruits are used to repel cockroaches |
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An apple tree can produce up to 400 apples a year |
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Bilberries are supposed to help improve nighttime vision. |
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According to the Dead Sea scrolls cherry seeds have satanic power |
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Many years ago explorers used watermelons to carry water on long expeditions |
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Mangoes are the most favorite and number 1 fruit in the world. |
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Strawberries and cashews are the only fruits that have their seeds on the outside unlike all other fruits which have their seeds inside |
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Kiwi contains twice as much Vitamin C as an orange |
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Oranges contain antioxidants that help fight the free radicals that damage and age our skin |
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Including fruit and vegetables in one’s daily diet can lessen the chances of miscarriage by almost half of the frequency, says a new research in London. |
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Eating more fruits and vegetables could significantly reduce the risk of many chronic diseases, high B.P, obesity, heart disease and some cancers. |
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In the 19th century British sailors ate limes to prevent Scurvy |
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There are over 7000 different types of apples grown all over the world. |
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Unlike bananas grapes can no longer ripen once picked. |
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More than 300 banana-related accidents happened in Britain in 2001 mostly involving people slipping on skins. |
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You can speed up the ripening of a pineapple by standing it upside down (on the leafy end). |
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Lemons can kill bacteria-as they have high content of acid which makes them suitable for cleaning. |
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You can make furniture with Pear wood (its hard). |
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Some horticulturists suspect that the banana was the earth's first fruit. |
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The Adam's apple is so-called coz of the idea that it was created when the forbidden fruit got stuck
in Adam's throat when he swallowed it. |
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The cabbage encloses nearly as much water as watermelon. Watermelon contains 92% water where cabbage is 90% and carrots are 87%
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A banana ripens quickly (overnight), when you put it into a brown paper bag with an apple or tomato. |
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You can make nitroglycerin by peanut oil, which is a main part of dynamite. |
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Special fruits for this week
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