Fruits Facts

Sometimes frozen fruits and vegetables are more nutritious than fresh!

Strawberries have more vitamin c than oranges.

In Japan, watermelons are grown into the shape of a square by placing them in cube-shaped molds as they grow. Originally intended to make stacking and transport easier, they must be harvested before ripening to maintain their shape, making them inedible and turning them into expensive ornamental novelties that sell for $100-500.

To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow then it is ripe.

The banana plant is technically a giant herb, not a tree, making bananas the world's largest herb berry.

There's a type of strawberry in Japan that is completely white, inside and out, with red seeds.

There are so many kinds of apples that if you ate a new one everyday, it would take over 20 years to try them all.

Coffee beans aren't beans - they're fruit pits.

Apple experts have created a sparkling apple that fizzes in your mouth.

If you don't wash strawberries before eating them, you may also be eating little white bugs.

Pineapples are not a single fruit, but a group of berries that have fused together.

The color orange was named after the fruit and not the other way around.

There is a “Fruit Salad Tree” which can grow up to 6 different types of fruit.

A type of strawberry that almost became extinct is now being sold in Europe. It tastes like pineapple so they call it pineberry.

There is a fruit by the name of Black Sapote or “chocolate pudding fruit” which tastes like chocolate pudding and is actually low fat and has about “4 times as much vitamin C as an orange”.

Coffee comes from an edible fruit. The coffee cherry is sweet and tastes like watermelon, rosewater, and hibiscus all at once.

The bananas we buy in stores and supermarkets are genetically identical clones, all descended from one banana. These bananas are seedless and sterile; natural bananas are short, fat, and have huge seeds.

To help clean produce, fill a bowl with water, add 1 cup of white vinegar, and soak fruit and vegetables for 10 minutes. Studies show this vinegar solution removes more pesticide residue and bacteria than water alone, though it won't completely strip commercial wax coatings.