25 fun facts about fruits and vegetables

March 20, 2016 painremedies Fruit Nutritions

Here are some fun facts about our favorite fruits and vegetables.

1. Apples adds more energy in the morning than coffee.
2. The more onions you eat, the  more you feel sleepy.
3. Eating lots of banana helps you fight depression.
4. Potatoes can improve your internet signals because it absorb wifi.
5. Bananas all over the world is exactly the same because these are just clone from a banana in southeast Asia.
6. Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief.
7. Garlic is also called the Stinking Rose.
8. Want to speed up ripening your pineapple? Try turning it upside down, with its leaf at the end.
9. Strawberry is not a berry.
10. Banana is a berry.
11. Tomatoes are not vegetables but fruits.
12. Pumpkins are not vegetables too but fruits.
13. Eggplants are fruits and they are classified as berries.
14. A cucumber is a fruit not a vegetable.
15. Broccoli contains more protein than steak.
16. Kiwi contains twice more Vitamin C than orange.
17. Watermelon contains 92% water, cabbage with 90% and carrots with 87% water.The orange peels have 4x more fiber than the fruit.
18. Apples contains 25% air that is why it floats in water.
19. Avocadoes are the most nutritious fruit of all.
20. Onions have 100 kinds of sulfide-containing compounds that can prevent asthma and risk of having any type of cancer.
21. Lemon kills bacteria with its high acid content that is why most cleaning materials contain lemon.
22. Strawberries are the only fruit which grows seeds on the outside
23. Asparagus are good for pregnant women to protect the babies from spina bifida, a birth defect where there is incomplete closing of the backbone and membranes around the spinal cord.
24. Watermelon keeps you well hydrated.
25. All red fruits can help keep your heart strong.

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