Apple Facts

I was browsing the internet and found some interesting apple facts, so I figured that I would share them with you.

Have you ever called someone, or heard someone say "The Apple of My Eye?" The word apple in Roman and Greek mythology symbolized love and beauty. So today we use the saying as somethig we prize or someone who we love.

Issac Newton is said to have thought up the laws of gravity while sitting under an apple tree and observig the falling apples.

Apple blossoms are the state flower of Michigan.

Washington, New York, Michigan, California, Pesylvania and Virginia produce over 83% of the nation's apple supply.

Fresh apples float because 25% of their volume is air.

The largest apple ever picked weighed 3lbs 2 oz.

"As American as Apple Pie"

"As American as Apple Pie" is profoundly known as the symbol of America. The word apple comes from the Old English word "aeppel." The are about 10,000 different kinds of apples grown in the world, and about 7,000 are grow right here in America. Who knew there were that many kinds of apples. I can probably think of no more than 10 different types. How about you?

Appletini Anyone?

Sooo I didn't really know if this is appropriate, but I was trying to think of an apple drink to blog about, and all I could think of was apple juice, apple cider, and appletinis. Appletini, obviously a type of martini, is a popular drink amongst popular sit down restaurants and bars across the USA. There are many slightly different versions of the appletini, but the one that I found the most popular in my research called for 2 oz of Applw Vodka or just regular Vodka and .5 oz. of Apple Schnapps or Apple juice. Then combine both ingredients in a shaker filled with ice, shake and strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with an apple slice.

Apple Electronics

I went to the Apple store for the first time at South Shore Plaza in Braintree a few weeks ago. It was one of the coolest places I have ever been. There must have been between 50-100 people in the store just playing with the computers, laptops, iPods, iPhones and everything else they have to offer. Apple or MacIntosh is growing rapidly with all of their new super thin and light laptops, touch screen iPods and phones. I think people love the idea of all of these new inventions. It's new and more futuristic I feel. I felt like a child in a candy store with all of the gadgets in the store, I just wanted everything! Go take a visit to one of the nearest Apple stores because you will be in heaven!

Crab Apples

Along with our apple tree, we also have a crab apple tree in our yard. The crab apple is in the rose family, and native to North America and Asia. During the spring and summer, the crab apple tree makes our back yard look so nice due to its beautiful spring flower display, and decorative fruit.The crab apples are much smaller and more tart than the a normal apple but are used more in jellies, preserves, and cider. Even if you try to take a little bite of one of the crab apples, you cringe at the sourness of the apple and it is just too much. Even though the tree is beautiful, the tasted of the apple just makes it less appealing.

Apple Tree Life Spans

Do apple trees have a life span? I was home this past weekend and my dad was outside doing yard work and he was giving our apple tree and little "haircut" or just cutting back the branches. We've always had an apple tree as long as I can remember. For the past couple of years though, it has not been producing any apples. Every year the tree will grow the flowers that it produces before actually growing apples, but after the flowers fall off, there are no apples to be found. I just found this to be weird and wondered if there was an actual point when trees just stop producing fruit. This kind of upset me because the apples tasted like no other apple that you can find in your local supermarket. SOOO good! Kind of like how vegetables taste so much better when you grow them in your own garden.

Gross...Brown Apples

I brought an apple back to my room after eating lunch at Tilly last week, and within minutes after eating it, I happened to glance at my desk where i put the rest of the apple, and it had already turned brown. Why do apples even turn brown? Well, here's your answer...

Once you cut the fruit, you open up some of the cells. The enzyme then has access to oxygen in the air and it does its thing, turning the fruit brown. This is the same thing that causes brown spots in apples when you drop them. The easiest way to prevent browning is to put the sliced apples in water so that the enzyme does not have access to oxygen. You can also heat the apples to denature the enzyme.

Even though it seems like a little bit of a hassle, the next time you bring an apple to school/work for a snack, use what you have learned so that when you pull out your afternoon snack, you are not munching on a brown apple.