A strawberry is not an actual berry, but a banana is.
Orangutans love mangoes
Apples float in water because they are 25% air.
Tomatoes are a fruit not a vegetable. Tomatoes are the most popular fruits in the world.
Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.
An average strawberry has around 200 seeds
Pumpkins and avocados are fruits not a vegetable.
Dark green vegetables include more vitamin C than light green color vegetables
Banana is not a fruit in reality, it is a herb
Because bananas are easy to digest and are very nutritious they are the first fruit offered to babies.
Osage orange fruits are used to repel cockroaches
An apple tree can produce up to 400 apples a year
Bilberries are supposed to help improve nighttime vision.
According to the Dead Sea scrolls cherry seeds have satanic power
Many years ago explorers used watermelons to carry water on long expeditions
Mangoes are the most favorite and number 1 fruit in the world.
Strawberries and cashews are the only fruits that have their seeds on the outside unlike all other fruits which have their seeds inside
Kiwi contains twice as much Vitamin C as an orange
Oranges contain antioxidants that help fight the free radicals that damage and age our skin
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.
Eating more fruits and vegetables could significantly reduce the risk of many chronic diseases, high B.P, obesity, heart disease and some cancers.
In the 19th century British sailors ate limes to prevent Scurvy
There are over 7000 different types of apples grown all over the world.
Unlike bananas grapes can no longer ripen once picked.
More than 300 banana-related accidents happened in Britain in 2001 mostly involving people slipping on skins.
You can speed up the ripening of a pineapple by standing it upside down (on the leafy end).
Lemons can kill bacteria-as they have high content of acid which makes them suitable for cleaning.
You can make furniture with Pear wood (its hard).
Some horticulturists suspect that the banana was the earth's first fruit.
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.
The cabbage encloses nearly as much water as watermelon. Watermelon contains 92% water where cabbage is 90% and carrots are 87%
A banana ripens quickly (overnight), when you put it into a brown paper bag with an apple or tomato.
You can make nitroglycerin by peanut oil, which is a main part of dynamite.
The leaves of raspberry is used fresh or dried as herbal teas to regulate menstrual cycles
Lime oil is useful to cool fevers. It can also stimulate and refresh a tired mind and helps with depression
A durian is one of the world's biggest fruit with a strong smell
Avocado leaves are harmful to animals and the fruits may also poisonous to some birds
Dried fruits contain more calories than fresh fruits. Since drying process takes out water and volume
An apple is a very refreshing tonic for oily skin. It makes an excellent remedy for fine wrinkles, cracked skin, itching and inflammation
Eating fresh figs during pregnancy helps from prolonged labor and weakness after childbirth
Gibbons prefer to eat fruits twice a day. It normally loves to eat ripe, sugary, juicy fruits like figs.
A study reveals avocados are the world's most nutritious fruit
Research says eating grapefruit in the morning will helps to lose an average of 3.6 pounds. It also protect from diabetes.
Babaco is gorgeous torpedo shaped fruit. It's also named as champagne fruit since it has a fizzy flesh.
Sapodilla is a uniquely tasted fruit. It had a soft brown flesh which flavors like a sweet mix of brown sugar and root beer.
Bilimbi fruit is similar to star fruit. The tree of Bilimbi is more cold-sensitive than the carambola tree. The fruit is more effective for several human ailments.
chempedak fruit is really not too big. It just has the shape of long water melon but the whole fruit is only about 3 Kg.
Damson fruit is more effective to create fruit paste or cheese. It's perfectly made for Christmas treat.
The name pine-apple was the original name for a pine cone (grows on pine trees). Because the fruit pineapple looked like a huge pine cone, it too was called a pine-apple.
Pineapples contain an enzyme that is used in blood tests. Fibers in pineapple leaves are used to make rope and a cloth called pino.
Kiwis were once known as Chinese gooseberries.
Eating an apple is a more reliable method of staying awake than consuming a cup of coffee. The natural sugar in an apple is more potent than the caffeine in coffee.
Pineapples are berries, just like strawberries and blueberries.
A half-cup of figs has as much calcium as a half-cup of milk.
There are over 200 different known species of raspberries but only 2 species are grown on a large scale.
Blackberry juice was used to dye cloth navy blue and indigo.
Currant juice can be used to soothe sore throats and colds.
The juiciest, most delicious oranges in the world are grown in Florida.
Eggplants are actually fruits, and classified botanically as berries.