In Japan, watermelons are grown into the shape of a square so they are easier to stack and transport.
108
The bananas we buy in stores and supermarkets are genetically identical clones, all descended from one banana. These bananas are seedless and sterile; natural bananas are short, fat, and have huge seeds.
4
Coffee comes from an edible fruit. The coffee cherry is sweet and tastes like watermelon, rosewater, and hibiscus all at once.
7
The Himalayan Goji berry has more iron than steak, more vitamin C than oranges and more beta carotene than carrots.
35
Strawberries are in the same plant family as roses.
13
Pineapples are not a single fruit, but a group of berries that have fused together.
19
Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
16
There is a fruit by the name of Black Sapote or “chocolate pudding fruit” which tastes like chocolate pudding and is actually low fat and has about “4 times as much vitamin C as an orange”.
10