5 Amazing Facts About Apples That Will Fascinate You!

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There are more than 7,500 different varieties of apple grown all across the world. That’s the widest variety of any fruit!

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Apples make up over half of all the world’s deciduous fruit tree production. In 2017, just over 87 million tonnes of apples were produced globally!

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Apple seeds contain amygdalin, which is composed of sugar and cyanide, which can be fatal if ingested.

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The fear of apples and apple trees is known as Malusdomesticaphobia.

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The heaviest apple ever grown weighed in at a mammoth 4 lb 1 oz! It was grown by an apple farmer in Japan in 2005.

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