Fresh fruits and vegetables ...


- The most popular are the 3,000 varieties of tomatoes and the 200 varieties of apples.

- From a botanical point of view, pumpkin is a fruit, not a vegetable.

- Watermelon contains 4% water, carrots 3% and cauliflower 30% water.

- Apples in America have the facility to be stored for one year.

- Put the grapes in the microwave oven and it will explode.

- Apple is a plant of the rose family.

- Bananas are slightly radioactive.

- Square watermelon is cultivated in Japan.

- Cucumber is a fruit, not a vegetable.

- The study of fruits is called 'pomology'.

- The world's largest fruit, Coco-de-Mer, weighs 5 kg and its seeds weigh 15 kg.

- Vegetables and fruits stay naturally fresh for many days after being picked from the tree.

- Tomatoes have more genes than humans.

- There are many similarities between bananas and human genes.

- Stickers affixed to fruits abroad are made of food and can be eaten.

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