Apple Facts
The Apple - interesting facts
- Kiwis eat on average 15kg of apples and apple products per
person each year
- Apples float because 25 percent of their volume is air
- To see if it's crunchy, tap a apple - if it sounds hollow
-it's crunchy. If it sounds 'dull' it's not crunchy
- One large apple has 5g of fibre
- Apples are a member of the rose family
- It takes the energy of 50 leaves to grow one apple
- The largest apple picked weighed 1.36kg
- The world's longest apple peel was 52.6m long
- There are more than 7,500 varieties of apples
- Apples ripen 6-10 times faster at room temperature than if
refrigerated
- Two thirds of the fibre and many antioxidants are found in
the skin
- The seed pocket in an apple is called a 'carpel'
