Top 10 Interesting Fruit Facts You Probably Did Not Know:

Top 10 Interesting Fruit Facts You Probably Did Not Know: 

1:Pineapples are actually berries and we can speed up it's ripening process by making it stand upside down: 

Pineapple consists of many berries that have grown together. This also means that Pineapples are not a single fruit, but a group of berries that have fused together. The scientific name of the pineapple is Ananas comosus. 

To ripen an unripe pineapple sooner, always place it with its base upwards and balancing it on its leaves, i.e., place it upside down. This helps in the flow of the sugars which yields in ripening the fruit evenly and saves the fruit from rotting.

2:Dried fruits have more calories than fresh fruits: 

Dried fruits have more calories than fresh fruits as the process of drying reduces the water content and its volume.

A half-cup of dried fruit counts as a cup of fresh. Percentages of water, calories, and amounts of vitamins and minerals vary by type of fruit.

3:Half a cup of figs have the same amount of calcium as that of milk: 

Figs are high in natural sugars, minerals, and soluble fiber. Figs are rich in minerals including potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, and copper and are a good source of antioxidant vitamins A and K that contribute to health and wellness. 

In fact, half a cup of figs has the same amount of calcium as half a cup of milk.

4:The seeds of lychee are poisonous and should not be consumed: 

In 1962, it was found that lychee seeds contained methylene-cyclopropyl glycine (MCPG), a homolog of hypoglycin A, which caused hypoglycemia in animal studies. 

A 2013 investigation by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in India, showed that cases were linked to the consumption of lychee fruit, causing a noninflammatory encephalopathy that mimicked symptoms of Jamaican vomiting sickness. Because low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) of less than 70 mg/dL in the undernourished children on admission was common and associated with a poorer outcome (44% of all cases were fatal) the CDC identified the illness as a hypoglycemic encephalopathy. The investigation linked the illness to hypoglycin A and MCPG toxicity, and to malnourished children eating lychees (particularly unripe ones) on an empty stomach. Other assessments indicated that lychee contains "unusual amino acids" affecting gluconeogenesis and β-oxidation of fatty acids, contributing to acute illness.

5:Strawberries are the only fruit with seeds on the outside. There are 200 seeds in an average strawberry: 

The “seeds" you see on the outside of a strawberry are actually the plant's ovaries and are called "achenes." Each “seed" is technically a separate fruit that has a seed inside of it. 

Despite all this confusion about strawberry seeds, most strawberries are not actually grown from seeds.

6:Grapefruit can cause dangerous reactions with some prescription medications: 

Grapefruit interferes with proteins in the small intestine and liver that normally break down many medications. Eating grapefruit or drinking grapefruit juice while taking these medications can lead to higher levels in your blood — and more side effects. 

This happens in two very different ways. In the first, the effect is from bergamottin, a natural furanocoumarin in both grapefruit flesh and peel that inhibits the CYP3A4 enzyme, (among others from the P450 enzyme family responsible for metabolizing 90% of drugs). The action of the CYP3A4 enzyme itself is to metabolize many medications. If the drug's breakdown for removal is lessened, then the level of the drug in the blood may become too high or stay too long, leading to adverse effects. On the other hand, some drugs must be broken down to become active, and inhibiting CYP3A4 may lead to reduced drug effects. 

The other effect is that grapefruit can block the absorption of drugs in the intestine. If the drug is not absorbed, then not enough of it is in the blood to have a therapeutic effect. Each affected drug has either a specific increase of effect or decrease.

7:One pomegranate can hold more than 1,000 seeds: 

Pomegranates are apple-sized, red-colored fruit containing hundreds of pitch-red juicy seeds.  Some sources fix the number to exactly 613, some allow for an error of +/- 200, yet others believe that all pomegranates have the exact same number of seeds. 

However, the actual number of seeds in a pomegranate can vary from 200 to about 1,400.

8:A banana is not a fruit, it is a herb: 

A banana is an edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa. 

The banana plant is called a 'banana tree' in popular use, but it's technically regarded as a herbaceous plant (or 'herb') because the stem does not contain true woody tissue.

9:Mangoes are the most loved and the No 1 fruit in the world: 

Mangoes are the most loved and the No 1 fruit in the world, particularly in India. They originated in India over 5,000 years ago and today almost half world production is sourced from India. Nevertheless, Indian mangoes only account for about 1% of world trade – most are eaten in India. Mangoes crop up in Indian history at all kinds of junctures. 

It is the national fruit of India and Pakistan, and the national tree of Bangladesh. It is the unofficial national fruit of the Philippines.

10:Japanese Yubari cantaloupes are the most expensive fruit in the world: 

The Yubari King is a cantaloupe cultivar farmed in greenhouses in Yūbari, Hokkaido, a small city close to Sapporo.

A top-grade melon is to be perfectly round and have an exceptionally smooth rind. A portion of the stem, which is snipped with scissors, is left on top for aesthetic appeal. Some Japanese people present Yubari King melons as gifts during Chūgen. 

At a Japanese auction in 2008, two Yubari King melons sold together for ¥2.5 million. In 2016, Konishi Seika, a fruit and vegetable market in Amagasaki, bought a pair of Yubari King melons at auction with a winning bid of ¥3 million. In 2019 Tokyo-based Pokka Sapporo Food & Beverage Ltd bought a pair of Yubari melons at auction for the highest recorded price of ¥5 million.

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