[NAFEX] Some Interesting Fruit Facts.

hans brinkmann hans-brinkmann at t-online.de
Wed Jun 11 08:52:27 EDT 2008


Hallo,

you Dr. Chiranjit Parmar are definitely 100% right with your Durian 
statement, because in the contrary to Durian, Ginkgo biloba flesh is 
never eaten, but the "nuts".
Additionally, if Ginkgo fruits are harvested at right moment, they do 
not smell at all...

But Rob Hamilton is also very right!
/I think the trouble with lot of these types of facts like the oldest 
fruits and the healthiest fruit and other type of record setting 
statistics is that they are very temporal and subjected to current 
study. There are number of fruits that are even on Fruitipedia's website 
that may not have had the kind of critical study and scrutiny that a 
number of these common fruits have to determine nutrition. The dry 
climate of the middle east tends to preserve evidence that may be lost 
in areas like in Southern Asia. I read Bananas were one of the oldest 
cultivated fruits, but in areas of monsoons, or high humidity, can we 
really know?  This in fact seems to go against (indirectly) what your 
website might be promoting - which is more investigation in the lesser 
know fruits. By no means am I saying that a list as this should not be 
made or used in promoting it, though I would always phrase it in a way 
that invited further investigation into other fruits. I know I am talk 
about an area I know little about, but I thought it may be worth 
thinking about.

Any thoughts?

Robert/

If there are facts, it would be useful to quote the source and the facts 
about height, age or the content of this or that...otherwise those 
"facts" are almost useless.
A "healthiest" fruit may never exist - scientifically. Healthy fruits we 
have plenty.
 
The Roman Theophrast (4th century before time counting .) is describing 
e.g. culture and grafting methods of Almond. It has been used already at 
Stone-age at
Greece and Middle East. That's why the old Romans called the Almonds: 
Greek Nuts (nux graeca).
Ficus sycomorus the Sykomore and Phoenix dactylifera the Date palm was 
cultivated during Old Egyptian's  3rd Dynasty 2600 years before time 
counting.
Grape wine cultivation is proved from the first Egyptian Dynasty 2950 
years before time counting at  Abydos (160 km north of Luxor).

ciao
Hans


ghg3 at heirloomorchardist.com schrieb:
> "Durian is the smelliest fruit"
>  
> Hmmm.  seems somewhat subjective.  Ever stuck your nose over the ripe 
> fruit of Ginkgo biloba?  I don't recommend it.
>  
> George Gifford
>  
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>     -------- Original Message --------
>     Subject: [NAFEX] Some Interesting Fruit Facts.
>     From: "Dr. Chiranjit Parmar" dataone.in>
>     Date: Tue, June 10, 2008 1:10 pm
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>     Dear fruit lovers,
>      
>     Do you know that:
>
>         * Date palm is the oldest fruit known to man.  It was under
>           cultivation 5000 years ago.
>         * Mango has over 1000 varieties in India, duly recorded and
>           described.
>         * The Oldest Living Fruit Tree in North Americais The Endicott
>           Pear Tree. Planted in 1632, and still alive today.
>         * Monthan variety of banana in India is cultivated only for
>           its leaves.  Most orthodox South Indians prefer to eat in
>           banana leaves instead of plates.
>         * Durian is the smelliest fruit.
>
>     There must be hundreds of such facts about over 4000 edible fruits. 
>      
>     I am making a collection and already have 56 such "interesting
>     fruit facts".
>      
>     I have put these facts in a "cartoon strip" format.  I am
>     releasing one such fact every week in Fruitipedia.  This weeks
>     Fruit fact is about jackfruit which is the largest fruit (upto 35
>     kg) and the heaviest yielder (a tree can bear upto 250 fruits).
>      
>     *I am making a collection of such facts.  I am sure that many list
>     members must be knowing similar interesting facts.  I therefore
>     them to kindly send such facts to me.  If found suitable, I shall
>     put them in Fruitipedia alongwith the name of the person*.
>      
>     So let others be amused/informed/benefited by your knowledge
>     and e-mail such facts from your collection to me.
>      
>     Dr. Chiranjit Parmar
>     www.fruitipedia.com <http://www.fruitipedia.com/>
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