Fruits are my all time favorite. They are delicious and nutritious gift of nature having many varieties and different tastes. They can be found in every color of rainbow. As far as I can recall, I don’t remember even a single day of mine going without eating any fruit.
They are loaded with vitamins, minerals and dietary fibers which makes them a natural medicine. Their consumption is not only essential for the health and maintenance of body but they actually make your skin look radiant, young and glowing as fruits are full of anti-oxidants.
Today, at breakfast while peeling my apple, I thought of sharing some of the amazing fruits facts you probably did not know before.
In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants formed from the ovary after flowering. The study of fruits is called POMOLOGY. In common language usage, “fruit” normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of a plant that are sweet or sour, and edible in the raw state, such as apples, bananas, grapes, lemons, oranges, and strawberries.
Fruits are important sources of dietary fiber, vitamins (especially vitamin C), and antioxidants.
Bananas:
Bananas are the most popular fruit in the world in fact, over 100 billion bananas are eaten around the world every year, and around 51% of these are eaten at breakfast time. A banana is not a fruit its a herb. Being easy to digest and highly nutritious, these are the first fruits offered to babies.
Apple:
Apple is popularly known as the supposed forbidden fruit of Eden. But this is not mentioned anywhere in the Bible!
There is a classic story that Sir Isaac Newton came up with his law of gravity when an apple fell on his head. Apples stay afloat in water as they are 25 percent air. Apples come in all shades of reds, greens and yellows. The apple is the official state fruit of Washington, New York, Rhode Island, and West Virginia. 2500 varieties of apples are grown in the United States. 7500 varieties of apples are grown around the world. Every American eats 19.6 pounds of apples every year.
The science of apple growing is called pomology. A raw apple is 86% water and 14% carbohydrates, with negligible content of fat and protein.
Strawberries:
Strawberries are the only fruit with seeds on the outside. There are 200 seeds in an average strawberry. Unlike some other fruits, strawberries don’t continue to ripen after being picked, so if they don’t look ripe, they never will be.
Strawberries are native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, and cultivated varieties are widely grown throughout the world. The fruits are rich in vitamin C and are commonly eaten fresh as a dessert fruit, are used as a pastry or pie filling, and may be preserved in many ways.
Peach:
Peach grown throughout the warmer temperate regions of both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. Peaches are widely eaten fresh and are also baked in pies and cobblers; canned peaches are a staple commodity in many regions. Yellow-fleshed varieties are especially rich in vitamin A.
Peach trees are relatively short-lived as compared with some other fruit trees. Thousands of varieties of the peach have been developed. Yellow-fleshed varieties such as Elberta, Redhaven, and Halford are preferred in North America, while both yellow- and white-fleshed types are popular in Europe.
Pineapple:
Pineapple is native to tropical and subtropical America and has been introduced elsewhere. The fruit has become a characteristic ingredient in the meat, vegetable, fish, and rice dishes of what is loosely termed Pan-Asian cuisine .
The fruit is eaten fresh where available and in canned form worldwide. The pineapple propagating pieces are inserted through the paper into the soil, so spaced as to give a population of 15,000–20,000 plants per acre.
Pineapples also contain trace amounts of vitamins A and K, phosphorus, zinc and calcium. They are especially rich in vitamin C and manganese, providing 131% and 76% of the daily recommendations, respectively.
Pomegranate:
Pomegranate was originally described throughout the Mediterranean region. The pomegranate is a fruit that contains hundreds of edible seeds called arils. They are rich in fiber, vitamins, minerals and bioactive plant compounds, but they also contain some sugar.
Pomegranate juice recently made a splash when researchers found that it may help stop the growth of prostate cancer cells. Despite multiple studies on the effects of the juice on prostate cancer, results are still preliminary.
Fruits are not just delicious and nutritious, but also hold many secrets and fascinating facts. By exploring the fruit kingdom, we can appreciate the complexity and beauty of nature's creations. So next time you bite into your favorite fruit, remember the amazing stories behind it!
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