20 Interesting Fun Facts About Apples

20 Fun Facts On Apples • A bushel of apples weighs approximately 42 pounds or 19kg; a peck of apples weighs 10 pounds or 4.8kg • An average apple is over 40 feet tall • An average human eats 65 apples a year • Apple trees have a life of over 100 years • Apple trees only bear fruits after they reach 5 years of age • Apples ripen 6 to 10 times faster at room temperature if they were refrigerated • Archeologist have found evidence that humans have been enjoying apple since at least 6500 B.C •
 China is the country that produces the largest amount of apples • Europeans consumers eat 46 pounds of apples a year • Fresh apples float because they are 25% air • Generally, the apple is usually considered to be the supposed forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden.
However, this is not in the Bible • It takes energy from 50 leaves to produce an apple • Planting an apple seed from a particular apple will not produce a tree of that same variety • Pomology is a term used for the study of apple cultivation • The average apple has 10 seeds • The average U.S consumers eat an estimated 45 pounds a year •
 The fear of apple is known as malusdomesticaphobia • The heaviest apple ever picked weighs at least 3 pounds 2 ounces • The original in an area between the Caspian and Black Sea • The top 3 largest importers of apples are Russia, Germany and the U.K • The top 6 animals that eat apples include monkeys, horses, chimpanzees, raccoons, horses, bears and rabbits