All About Apples

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All About Apples
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A is for Apple

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Apples are fascinating

• 2500 varieties of apples are grown in the
  United States.
• 7500 varieties of apples are grown throughout the
  world.
• 100 varieties of apples are grown commercially in
  the United States.

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Where they grow

• The top apple producing states are
• Washington, New York, Michigan, California,
• Pennsylvania and Virginia, which produced
• over 83 percent of the nations 2001-crop
• apple supply.
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away

• Apples are fat free
• Apples are sodium
• Cholesterol free
• A medium apple is about 80 calories

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Most Apples are still picked by hand

• The largest apple picked weighed three pounds
• Some apple trees will grown over forty feet high
  and live over a hundred years
• The pilgrims planted the first United States
  apple trees in the Massachusetts Bay Colony