- In the United States, bananas are the most popular fruit.
What do you know about apples? There is only one kind of apple that’s native to the United States! Read on to find out more.
- More than 2500 varieties of apples are grown in the United States including Honeycrisp, Red Delicious, Empire, McIntosh Red, EverCrisp, Ginger Gold,
Jonathan, Golden Supreme, Gala, Cortland, Fuji, Granny Smith, Pink Lady, Arkansas Black, Macoun apple, Idared, Golden Delicious, Braeburn, Jonagold, Ambrosia, Crimson Crisp, Baldwin, Mutsu, and Paula Red are just a few - Apple are the second most popular fruit in the US behind bananas.
- Apples often represent villains in movies and books, think the evil queen. It stems from the Bible story of Adam and Eve and the apple as the forbidden fruit.
- Apple growing is called pomology. Did you know this about apples?
- Apples are able to float in water because they are 25% air.
- Apples are less dense than water and that’s what makes them perfect for apple bobbing.
- The most popular apples in the United States as of 2020 were Gala (#1), Honeycrisp (#2), and Granny Smith (#3).
- “How do you like them apples?” is a saying that goes well beyond “Good Will Hunting”. It was printed in the newspaper in 1895. The Eagle wrote: “Bryan is the best cotton market in this section of the state and has received more cotton than any other town in this section. How do you like them apples?”
- A medium apple, or about 100 grams, contains about 4 grams of fiber or about 17% of what you need in a day.
- Did you know there was such thing as an apple burger? It’s made of apples and chickpeas. Have you ever tried it, or would you?
- Have you ever heard the saying, “As American as apple pie”? Apple pie has always been associated with America but the dessert actually comes from England. Did you know this about apples and their history?
- Steve Jobs had many reasons for calling his company “Apple”. Steve Jobs had just visited an apple farm when he came up with the name “Apple” for his company. To him the name was, “fun, spirited and not intimidating.”
- There is only one apple native to North America and it’s the crab apple.
- The first of the apple pies were sugar free, because sugar was too expensive on an ingredient at the time. They would add things like figs to help sweeten the pies.
- The heaviest apple on record, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, weighed four pounds and one ounce. The apple was grown and harvested in 2005 from Chisato Iwasaki from his apple farm in Hirosaki City, Japan.
- It takes 36 apples to make one gallon of apple cider.
- There is one state that produces over half of all the apples grown in the United States and it’s Washington.
- According to archaeologists, there’s evidence that people have been eating apples since at least 6500 B.C. What a fun and old fact about apples!
- The apple tree known as “Sir Isaac Newton’s” apple tree is the most famous in the world. The tree is at Woolsthorpe Manor, England and is around 400 years old.
- The apple pie is the most popular in the United States and it’s got long standing status as the favorite!
- What’s with apples and teachers? It actually goes back to frontier times and teachers were given housing and sustenance from families whose children attended the schools at the time.
Did you know these fun facts about apples? Let me know which apple fact was your favorite in the comments!