nd 17 kgs.
27. Pumpkins and Avocados are not vegetables but fruits. Sorry, Veggies! Studies suggest that an avocado is the most nutritious fruit in the world.
28. Apples, raspberries, and peaches are all a part of the rose family. No wonder they look so lovely.
29. This is interesting! The skin and stalk of the fruit are more nutritious than the actual fruit. So. never peel your fruit and eat. If you are doing so, you are losing a lot of nutritional value.
30. If you are under prescription, drinking grapefruit juice with prescribed medicine can prove to be fatal. Be aware.
That was a lot of weird facts about fruits. There is more to it. Let us read some more. It is always good to be informed.
- Some more vegetables that belong to the fruit family include olives, peapods, butternut pumpkin, capsicum, and zucchini. If this continues, there would be no vegetables but fruits.
- An apple tree can produce more than 400 apples per year. Through controlled atmosphere storage, you can have an apple even after a year from the fruit being plucked.
- To pick the best watermelon, always check the bottom for a creamy yellow colour. If the bottom is green or whitish, the watermelon has been picked before it could ripe. Also, the darker the green colour of the watermelon, the riper it is.
- The world’s most expensive fruit is a Yubari Melon. This orange melon is very sweet and juicy and comes at a price tag of $23000 per pair. That is quite a price!
- If you need to know if the avocado in your hand is ripe or not, just press the top of the avocado, and if it is firm, the fruit has yet to ripen.
- The stinkiest fruit in the world is durian. It smells like a combination of rotten eggs, wet garbage, and wet socks. But when it comes to sweetness, very few fruits can match.
Fruits are an integral part of our food habits. The next time when you are eating fruit, try to remember some of the facts mentioned above and know how amazingly weird facts could be.