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FAST FACTS

Why is the TWO CANTALOUPES
durian banned SOLD FOR
on public $23,500
transportation Strawberries
in Singapore? can help whiten Sold at an auction in Japan in 2008, these
teeth because two Yubari King cantaloupes are a luxury fruit,
the acids and were probably given as a gift. The town
remove stains. of Yubari produces a small number of these
every year, which is why the demand (and
the price!) is high.

PEANUTS
ARE FRUIT

There are more Nuts are large seeds with a hard shell. But for
than 7,000 types some, such as peanuts, almonds, hazelnuts, and
of apples. chestnuts, the shell is in fact a fruit that is tough
and fibrous rather than soft and juicy.

HELICOPTERS ARE USED TO
A small kiwi has DRY CHERRIES
almost the same
amount of vitamin C
as a big orange.

Tomatoes have often been
grouped with vegetables because
they contain less sugar than When cherries absorb rainwater, they are prone
most fruits, but vegetables can be to splitting because their skin cannot stretch. To
any plant or part of a plant. The stop the cherries from being ruined, helicopters
tomato is really a berry, and just fly over the trees to blow off the water and dry
one of hundreds of different fruits the fruit—just like a giant hair dryer!
grown around the world today.

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