Check out these fun and interesting facts about everyone’s favorite fruit APPLES! You can enjoy them any season and they work great in both sweet and savory dishes. Take a bite of a juicy apple and enjoy!

Apples are a fruit that’s around for every season.

Not like summer fruits such as peaches or other stone fruits, apples are always in season.

Now, here’s some interesting tips and facts about this special fruit.

1. Archaeologists have found evidence that people have been eating apples since 6,500 B.C.

2. There are more than 7,500 apple varieties in the world. About 100 of those are sold commercially.

3. Apples were the favorite fruit of ancient Greeks and Romans.

4. An apple has about 80 calories. They are fat-free, sodium-free, and cholesterol-free and also are an excellent source of fiber.

5. Top producing counties in the world are China, United States, Turkey, Poland, and Italy.

6. Apples are a member of the rose family of plants, which also includes pears, peaches, cherries, and plums.

7. If you’ve ever wondered why apples float it’s because they’re 25 percent air, giving us the ability to bob for apples in a barrel of water.

8. One of George Washington’s hobbies was pruning his apple trees.

9. The science of growing apples is called pomology.

10. Apple juice was one of the earliest prescribed antidepressants.

11. Most apples in the world are still picked by hand.

12. Apples are fat, sodium, and cholesterol free.

13. Apples are a great source of the fiber pectin. One apple has five grams of fiber.

14. Apple varieties range in size from a little larger than a cherry to as large as a grapefruit.

15. The apple tree originated in an area between the Caspian and the Black Sea.

16. In colonial time, apples were called winter banana or melt-in-the-mouth.

17. A peck of apples weight 10.5 pounds.

18. A bushel of apples weights about 42 pounds and will yield 20-24 quarts of applesauce.

19. Apples account for 50 percent of the world's deciduous fruit tree production.