What was and is your favorite way to eat apples? On the mainland, my favorite way to eat an apple was as a caramel apple loaded with nuts. Living on islands, my favorite way to eat an apple is with peanut butter. The similarity is that I have always liked eating apples with nut or peanut protein. And my favorite apple to eat is a Fuji apple.
If you planted the seeds from a Fuji apple, the trees would not grow Fuji apples.
Each apple seed carries a new mix of genes from two parent trees. Think of human brothers and sisters. They have the same two parents, but each child receives a different mix from those parents, so no two children are exactly alike. Apple seeds work the same way. Each seed grows a tree unlike any tree before it. The apples that those new trees produce are often smaller and more sour than apples sold in stores. That is why farmers use grafting, to grow the same kind of apple again and again.
Grafting is joining a branch cut from one apple tree onto the roots of another apple tree. An apple tree is usually chosen for strong roots, such as roots that resist disease or keep the tree small enough to pick from. The branch grafted on decides what kind of apples will grow on the tree. So every Fuji apple grows on a tree that had a branch grafted from another Fuji tree.
The Fuji Apple originally began as a seed. In 1939, researchers at a fruit tree research station near the town of Fujisaki in Japan, put pollen from Red Delicious apple flowers onto the flowers of an old American apple called Ralls Janet. The researchers planted the seeds from the apples that grew. In 1951, one of 596 trees grown from those seeds produced apples the researchers liked. That tree's apples became the first Fuji apples, and every Fuji tree since grows from branches grafted from that original tree. The apple was named Fuji and was brought to market in 1962. The name Fuji comes from the town of Fujisaki. Today, the Fuji is the most popular apple in Japan.
Apples give the body fiber, vitamin C, and potassium. Much of the fiber is in the peel, so eating the peel gives the body more.
You are welcome to learn about where your apples come from.
Stacy 🌺
Information in this post comes from my learning and research.
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