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Who really doesn’t like fruits, they are filled with full of vitamins and nutrients and taste that give complete satisfaction. It is essential to know that eating fruits as part of an overall healthy diet can prevent dangers of several diseases. You need to know that fruits are necessary sources of multiple nutrients like potassium, fiber, vitamin c and folate. But you also need to know about some facts of fruits we eat almost everyday.
1. Bananas Are Being Menaced By a Number of Diseases
About 100 billion bananas are consumed every year around the world, placing them to be the fourth most famous product and best selling fruits on earth. Each year, 105 million tonnes of bananas are grown in more than 150 countries.
However, bananas are now under attack by several diseases, and may experience more threats due to the climate changing which can cause pathogens to increase. Fields of bananas around the world are being trapped from dangerous fungus, meanwhile in east Africa a bacterial disease is damaging plantations. A very deadly disease that is likely to kill any banana plant.
2. Supermarket Apples Are a Year Old
Although they may look fresh on the supermarket shelf, research has disclosed that most of the apples from the supermarket we purchase, have already been out of date for about a year by the time they are placed on the shelves. The daily mail revealed that the fruits are normally stored in storage for about a year before being sold, which tells us that most of the apples we buy were picked a year ago.
3. Helicopter Pilots Hired By Cherry Farmers To Air Dry Trees After Raining
Weeks before the cherries are ready to be picked, the fruits can be very unprotected to dangers that can harm them. The main danger is water. Every time the rain comes down, the water is attached to the cherries which can cause damage like rotting or splitting. Therefore, Hundreds of dollars are being paid to pilots per day to be waiting and ready to air dry the trees when it needs blow-drying every time the rain comes down.
4. Grapefruit Juice Together With Certain Medicines Can Be Dangerous
Even tough it is said that grapefruit has the powerful nutrient mixture of fiber, potassium, lycopene, vitamin C, and choline that helps to keep a healthy heart, grapefruit juice can be a menace to the body. Drinking grapefruit juice together with several medicines can raise blood levels of the medicines to a become painful.
A lot of materials are included in citrus fruits other than vitamin c and when it comes to drinking fruit juice like Seville oranges and grapefruit, it can be threatening if you involve several medicines. If you are a big fan of grapefruit and its juice, seek advice from your doctor if you have been put on a new medication.
5. Several Fruits Can Grow From a Single Tree Known as The Fruit Salad Tree
As a huge fan of fruit salad, you should know that there is now a tree for it known as the fruit salad fruit. Just like fruit salad, you can pick only the one you prefer, the tree grows up to 6 different types of fruits on one tree. They are multi-grafted trees with multiple fruits that comes from the same “family” grafted together in a single tree. Every fruit keeps its own characteristics such as flavour, appearance and ripening times.
6.Fruits skin, rind, stalk or veggie is usually helpful than the actual fruit
This may sound like a joke to you, but you should know that the skin you always peal of a fruit or vegetable you like ignoring is actually more nutritious than the inside of a fruit. Miserable right? Because the tasty part normally comes from the inside. A lot of fruits and vegetables contain skin, rinds leaves and peels that include a lot of health benefits than the actual fruit and veg.
For instance, on the skin of an onion or garlic. When it comes to cutting our veg, the first thing we do is throw the skin in the bin, but least we know that onion and garlic is rich in quercetin, which is a plant flavonoid that includes a lot of health-boosting antioxidants. You also have a melon rind, which is rich in Citrulline, which is an amino acid that is beneficial when it comes to blood circulation and dilate blood vessels. Blend it with the skin of a melon for a delicious and nutritious smoothie.
Another instance is the leaves of a broccoli. The first thing we always go for is the florets and turn our back on the leaves, which is actually the best bit of broccoli. Broccoli leaves come with carotenoids, a strong plant pigment that the body can transform into Vitamin A and that also reduce the risk of cancer. You may be wondering how you can eat the leaves? Well, you should just cook it the same way you would normally cook broccoli.
7. Chefs are planning to add more purple vegetables to the dinner table.
If you look into most grocery stores, you will find many veggies in the color of purple, example of some veggies you can find are vegetables such as carrots, potatoes, corn, cauliflower and asparagus. Purple vegetables include anthocyanins. Some studies indicate that this flavanoid provide a lot of health benefits like certain cancers, develop general health, prevention of heart disease and could possibly keep our brains safe as we get older.
8. Your taste buds can be damaged by Pineapples.
Rather you like it or not, this is the truth. You may not be aware of the fact that pineapple includes an enzyme known as bromelain. If you take a look at different sources you will possibly find similar things. The enzyme kills proteins in your mouth, specifically your taste buds. This is capable damaging your palate for the rest of the day until your mouth decides to cure itself. An interesting fact that many people throw around that the enzyme is used in meat tenderizer. Like most fruits out there, pineapple is good for you and to avoid any damage to your taste buds, you should put a fresh sliced pineapple in your fridge for a bit before consuming the fruit, this will allow the enzymes to break down.
9. Toxins is included in most fruits and vegetables.
When it comes to a healthy diet, fruits and veggies are surely added in many people’s lists without a doubt. However, many of these people are also not aware of the fact that certain fruits and veggies includes toxic chemicals. The most popular toxin in fruits is cyanide. As a lot of people are aware, cyanide occurs in low levels in apples. It can also occur in fruits and veggies such as peaches, apricots and cassava roots. Veggies like potatoes contain periodically dangerous amounts of a toxin known as solanine. Potatoes contain a periodically dangerous amount of a toxin solanine. There is hardly enough in potatoes to cause damage and to keep the toxin low, and the farmers grow them in a certain manner.
10. A single pomegranate can include about 1,000 seeds.
Pomegranates are a fruit that comes with many seeds, the seeds differ from fruit to fruit depending on the size. On an average, a normal size pomegranate holds about 613 seeds. It is said that the majority of the pomegranates hold 613 when they are examined. Small size holds as small as 200 and as big as 700 seed inside the fruit. Most pomegranate that’s bigger in size, holds about 500-1000 seeds. The size determines the quantify of seeds that it includes. Therefore, every fruit does not have similar seeds, but different seeds in them. Most of the artificially breed flavor of the fruit has bigger size with seed holds less in number.
11. Japanese grows watermelon in the shape of a square.
Fruits in Japan are one of the biggest businesses in the country, and people who grow these fruits spend years cultivating fruits which are extra-large and different shapes to sell to high net-worth clients. Now you might be wondering why would someone want to grow squares watermelon’s? Well, there’s two reasons. First, the Japanese decided to grow square watermelons for easier stack, which makes them a lot easier to ship. Second, with space becoming a huge problem in crowded places of Japan, Japanese grow square watermelons to fit excellently inside Japanese refrigerators.
12. More genes are contained in Tomatoes than humans.
The tomato gnome has been explained! Plant geneticists from 14 countries around the world spent approximately nine years mapping the genes of the tomato, and find out that human being have less genes than a tomato as they have discovered that a tomato has 31,760 genes which is 7,00 more genes than a human. Tomato’s are said to be similar to potato’s, both plants share 92 of their DNA. You might be asking yourself why even map the tomato genome? Well, scientists dreamed of using the information to reproduce more healthy tomatoes, and the tomato genome is two of the intrinsic interest and a way to recognise the plant, the pepper, the eggplant and deadly nightshade.
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