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Apples make a popular lunchbox fruit as well.

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Apples are historically known for producing apple milk.

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Most new apple cultivars originate as seedlings, which either arise by chance or are bred by deliberately crossing cultivars with promising characteristics.

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A derivative of apple curd, apple milk is widely used throughout Tibet.

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The term also refers to the fruit of these trees, and in particular the fruit of the species Malus domestica, the domesticated orchard or table apple.

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Most North Americans and Europeans favor sweet, subacid apples, but tart apples have a strong, but reduced following.

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Apples have long been considered healthy, as indicated by the proverb "an apple a day keeps the doctor away."

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Apples are relatively indifferent to soil conditions and will grow in a wide range of pH values and fertility levels.

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Apples do not flower in tropical climates because they have a chilling requirement.

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Purйed apples are generally known as apple sauce.

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Apples are eaten with honey at the Jewish New Year of Rosh Hashanah to symbolize a sweet new year.

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A group of chemicals in apples could protect the brain from the type of damage that triggers such neurodegenerative diseases as Alzheimer's and Parkinson’s.

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Extremely sweet apples with barely any acid flavor are popular in Asia and especially India.

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Apples are an important ingredient in many winter desserts, for example apple pie, apple crumble, apple crisp, and apple cake.

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Apples bear in groups of five (or more rarely six) blossoms.

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Symptoms of inadequate pollination are excessive fruit drop (when marble sized), small and misshapen apples, slowness to ripen, and low seed count.

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In 2002, 45 million tons of apples were grown worldwide, with a value of about 10 billion U.S. dollars.

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Growers with old orchard blocks of single cultivars sometimes provide bouquets of crab apple blossoms in drums or pails in the orchard for pollenizers.

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The prevailing theory is that "apple" may be one of the most ancient Indo-European words (*abl-) to come down to English in a recognizable form.

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The scion is obtained from a mature apple tree of the desired cultivar.

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The leaves of domestic apple trees are alternately arranged, simple oval with an acute tip and serrated margin, slightly downy below, 5–12 cm long and 3–6 cm broad on a 2–5 cm petiole.

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Research suggests that apples may reduce the risk of colon cancer, prostate cancer, and lung cancer.

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Apples are self-incompatible and must be cross-pollinated to develop fruit.

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Chang Y. Lee (2003) of Cornell University found that the apple phenolics, which are naturally occurring antioxidants found in fresh apples, can protect nerve cells from neurotoxicity induced by oxidative stress.

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The researchers used Red Delicious apples grown in New York State to provide the extracts to study the effects of phytochemicals.

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Apples are harvested using three-point ladders that are designed to fit amongst the branches.

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Crabapples are widely grown as ornamental trees, grown for their beautiful flowers or fruit, with numerous cultivars selected for these qualities and for resistance to disease.

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Some breeders have crossed ordinary apples with crabapples or unusually hardy apples in order to produce hardier cultivars.

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The apple is a genus (Malus) of about 30–35 species of small deciduous trees or shrubs in the flowering plant family Rosaceae.

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Seedling apples are different from their parents, sometimes radically.

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Apples can also form bud sports (mutations on a single branch).

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Apples (or any fruit) planted on a south facing slope in the Northern Hemisphere (or north facing in the Southern Hemisphere), will flower early and be particularly vulnerable to spring frost.

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Apples require cross-pollination between individuals by insects (typically bees, which freely visit the flowers for both nectar and pollen).

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Similar treats in the United States are candy apples (coated in a hard shell of crystallized sugar syrup), and caramel apples, coated with cooled caramel.

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Apples are also made into apple butter and apple jelly.

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The apple tree was probably the earliest tree to be cultivated.

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Three goddesses claimed the apple: Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite.

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The Жsir began to age without Iрunn’s apples, so they coerced Loki into rescuing her.

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Growing apples near a large body of water can give an advantage by slowing spring warm up, which retards flowering until frost is less likely.

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During the flowering each season, apple growers usually provide pollinators to carry the pollen.

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Mature trees typically bear 40 to 200 kg of apples each year, though productivity can be close to zero in poor years.

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Apples having less than 3 seeds will usually not mature and will drop from the trees in the early summer.

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A small percentage of crab apples in cider make a more interesting flavor.

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Apples are difficult to grow organically, though a few orchards have done so with commercial success, using disease-resistant cultivars and the very best cultural controls.

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The other species are generally known as "wild apples," "crab apples," "crabapples," or "crabs," this name being derived from their generally small and sour, unpalatable fruit.

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Celtic mythology includes a story about Conle who receives an apple that feeds him for a year but also gives him an irresistible desire for Fairyland.

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The scientific name Malus, on the other hand, comes from the Latin word for apple, and ultimately from the archaic Greek m?lon (m?lon in later dialects).

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The apple is also sometimes symbolically equated with illicit sex.

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Apples appear in some religious traditions, in particular Christianity, where it is often depicted as a mystical and forbidden fruit.

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Well pollinated apples are of the best quality, and will have 7 to 10 seeds.

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Orchard blocks may alternate rows of compatible cultivars, or may have periodic crabapple trees, or grafted-on limbs of crab apple.

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Among the most serious disease problems are fireblight, a bacterial disease; and Gymnosporangium rust, apple scab, and black spot, three fungal diseases.

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The fruit of the other species, wild apples or crabapples, is not an important crop, being extremely sour and (in some species) woody, and is rarely eaten raw for this reason.

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Apple orchards are established by planting two- to four-year-old trees.

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Apples can be canned, juiced, and optionally fermented to produce apple juice, cider, vinegar, and pectin.

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The predominant phenolic phytochemicals in apples are quercetin, epicatechin, and procyanidin B2 (Lee et al.

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Hippomenes knew that he could not win in a fair race, so he used three golden apples to distract Atalanta.

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Malus domestica, the domesticated orchard apple, is a small tree, generally reaching 5–12 meters in height, with a broad, often densely twiggy crown.

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Tastes in apples vary from one person to another and have changed over time.

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Apples do require good drainage, and heavy soils or flat land should be tilled to make certain that the root systems are never in saturated soil.

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Before planting, it is important to arrange for pollenizers—cultivars of apple or crabapple that provide plentiful, viable, and compatible pollen.

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Imported apples from New Zealand and other more temperate areas are increasing each year and competing with U.S. production.

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Modern apples are generally sweeter than older cultivars.

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The domestic apple also serves symbolic value in works of art and various legends and traditions.

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Apple trees are susceptible to a number of fungal and bacterial diseases and insect pests.

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Distilled apple cider produces the spirits applejack and Calvados.

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The words "seedling," "pippin," and "kernel" in the name of an apple cultivar suggest that it originated as a seedling.

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To a greater degree than other tree fruit, except possibly citrus, apples store for months while still retaining much of their nutritive value.

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When held in Adam's hand, the apple symbolizes sin.

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The word apple comes from the Old English word aeppel, which in turn has recognizable cognates in a number of the northern branches of the Indo-European language family.

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The researchers used Red Delicious apples grown in New York State to provide the extracts to study the effects of phytochemicals.

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Iрunn was abducted by Юjazi the giant, who used Loki to lure Iрunn and her apples out of Бsgarрr.

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Cider apples are typically too tart and astringent to eat fresh, but they give the beverage a rich flavor that dessert apples cannot.

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Many unusual and locally important cultivars with their own unique taste and appearance are out there to discover; apple conservation campaigns have sprung up around the world to preserve such local cultivars from extinction.

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France, Italy, South Africa, and Chile are among the leading apple exporters.

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The honeybee is the most effective pollinator of domestic apples.

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Among the most serious disease problems are fireblight, a bacterial disease; and Gymnosporangium rust, apple scab, and black spot, three fungal diseases.

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Well pollinated apples are of the best quality, and will have 7 to 10 seeds.

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The latest tool in the organic repertoire is to spray a light coating of kaolin clay, which forms a physical barrier to some pests, and also helps prevent apple sun scald.

"Big Apple" is a nickname for New York City. It was first popularized in the 1920s by John J. Fitz Gerald, a sports writer for the New York Morning Telegraph. Its popularity since the 1970s is due in part to a promotional campaign by the New York tourist authorities.

"Big Apple" is a nickname for New York City. It was first popularized in the 1920s by John J. Fitz Gerald, a sports writer for the New York Morning Telegraph. Its popularity since the 1970s is due in part to a promotional campaign by the New York tourist authorities.

As far as the health benefits of specific types of apples are concerned, a 2005 Canadian study ranked Red Delicious, Northern Spy and Ida Red as highest in antioxidants and reported that polyphenols, the major antioxidants in apples, are five times more prevalent in apple skin than in the flesh.Jan 12, 2015

As far as the health benefits of specific types of apples are concerned, a 2005 Canadian study ranked Red Delicious, Northern Spy and Ida Red as highest in antioxidants and reported that polyphenols, the major antioxidants in apples, are five times more prevalent in apple skin than in the flesh.Jan 12, 2015

In the just-published Steve Jobs biography, Jobs told Walter Isaacson he was “on one of my fruitarian diets” and had just come back from an apple farm, and thought the name sounded “fun, spirited and not intimidating.” ... Steve was coming back from a visit to Oregon to a place he called an “apple orchard.”Nov 17, 2011

Apple sold 74.83m smartphones worldwide, ahead of the 73.03m phones sold by Samsung, according to a report by research firm Gartner. The success of the big-screen iPhone 6 and 6 Plus drove Apple's sales in its first quarter ended December 27.Mar 3, 2015