bedazzle your friends with these seven juicy tidbits about the yield .
1. STRAWBERRIES AREN’T BERRIES.
Technically speak , strawberries are auxiliary fruit . By “ accessory fruit ” we do n’t mean they make swell earrings ( although they might ) ; we imply that they ’re part of aclass of fruitthat includes apple , coarse figure , and pineapples .
2. NOBODY KNOWS FOR SURE HOW THEY GOT THEIR NAME.
There are several folk hypothesis , including that the yield gravel its name from its development figure over the ground like straw spread in a unchanging , butmodern etymologists are not buy it .
3. THERE ARE SOME PRETTY WEIRD VARIETIES.
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The garden strawberry ( Fragaria × ananassa ) dominates our produce aisles and farmers markets , but it ’s far from the only strawberry out there . The pineberry , prove above , look like a unbalanced strawberry buttastes like pineapple . Then there ’s the Himalayan strawberry , Fragaria x daltonia , whichlooks like a gym shoe from the ' 90sand is on the face of it not deserving eat ( it has been described as " virtually flat " ) .
4. SHORTCAKE LOVERS SHOULD HEAD TO OREGON.
Every year , the Lebanon Strawberry Festival in other June is dwelling to theworld ’s largest shortcake . The cake , which is made by a bakehouse in a local food market story , requires 992 cups of flour , 514 cup of lucre , and 18 cup of vanilla , and can feed more than 15,000 people .
5. THEY MAKE EXPERIMENTS MUCH EASIER.
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Everyone have sex it ’s operose to get spittle from a barbaric monkey . It ’s their saliva , and they think to keep it … unless there ’s jam to be had . Clever primate research worker figured out that they couldsmear strawberry kettle of fish on a rope , then nonchalantly leave it dwell around in the monkeys ’ territory . The monkey descend along , plug on the circle , then leave behind , providing scientist with a adorable — if gooey — spit sample distribution .
6. THEY’VE GOT MORE VITAMIN C THAN ORANGES.
A large Orange River provides about 86 calories and 98 milligrams of Vitamin C , or 163 pct of your daily recommended inhalation . A serving of strawberries ( about 10 strawberry ) is 60 nutritionist’s calorie and offersalmost 177 percentof your Vitamin ascorbic acid for the twenty-four hours .
7. STRAWBERRY CONSUMPTION IS ON THE RISE.
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From 2000 to 2012 , American strawberry consumptionrose by 60 pct . Agricultural expert credit ameliorate growing techniques , which make the fruit taste better , and increased handiness as we spell more and more produce from Central and South America .
