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- There is a museum in Belgium just for strawberries
- Lemon trees grow to be about 10 to 20 ft tall and are sparsely
covered with foliage.
- The Navel Orange, so named for their "belly button" at the blossom end, were discovered in the 1820'
- Lime is also called, Citrus aurantifolia
- Mangos were introduced to California (Santa Barbara) in 1880.
- The blackberry is a member of the rose family, Rosaceae
- The nectarine is a variety of peach.
- Pear leaves are oval and simple, smooth and glossy.
- The pear fruit is a pome.The thin skin varies in color from light yellow and green through red and brown.
- The pilgrims planted the first United States apple trees in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Apple trees take four to five years to produce their first fruit
- A medium apples is about 80 calories
- One apple has five grams of fiber
- Evidence shows that man has been enjoying apples for at least 750,000 years.
- The coconut tree grows to a height of 60—100 ft (18—30 m)
- The coco palm is one of the most useful trees in existence, every part of it having some value
- The pineapple is also called... Ananas, Nanas, or Pina.
- In 1493 Columbus found the pineapple fruit on the island of Guadaloupe and carried it back to Spain
- Compound fruit, pineapple, develops from many small fruits fused together. And are up to 12 in. long and weigh 1
to 10 pounds or more.
- Pineapple plants require a frost-free environment, cold weather effects the quality of it's fruit.
- Kiwifruit is saturated fat-free, sodium-free, and cholesterol-free
- The kiwifruit is native to the Yangtze River valley of northern China and Zhejiang Province on the coast of eastern China
- Kiwi plants were first exported from China to the United States in 1904, and seeds were brought to New Zealand in 1906.
- A Florida juice fruit, the tangelo, was produced by the fertilization of grapefruit flowers with mandarin orange
pollen.
- There are two main varietiesof grapefruit, Ruby Red and Marsh White
- A cross between a sweet orange and a pummelo is the Grapefruit
- Limes were fed to British sailors as a scurvy preventative.
- Stevia is a South American herb that is 30 times sweeter than sugar
- Stevia is calorie free and has a zero glycemic index.
- Stevia is is safe for diabetics and hypoglycemics
- Stevia effectively regulates blood sugar and brings it toward a normal balance as research indicates.
- Stevia leaves contains glycosides known as steviosides. Steviosides include rebaudiosides, which are the sweetest compounds
in the leaf.
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