Apples

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• Apples

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Tulare County Office of Education
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• Apples grow on beautiful trees.

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Reasons to Eat Apples

• A ½ cup of sliced apples is
• a source of fiber.
• Dietary fiber is a complex carbohydrate.

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• There are three main types of carbohydrates
  starch, fiber and sugar.
• Carbohydrates are the
• bodys main source of
• energy.

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Complex and Simple Carbs

• Simple carbohydrates include
• Fruit, fruit juice, table sugar, honey, soft
  drinks and other sweets.

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Complex and Simple Carbs

• Complex carbohydrates include
• Starch bread, cereal, potatoes, pasta, rice,
  and dried beans and peas (legumes).
• Fiber bran, whole-grain foods, raw vegetables,
  fruit, legumes,
• nuts, seeds and popcorn.

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• Apples can be eaten in a variety of forms as
  whole (fresh), unsweetened applesauce, dried
  apples or 100 juice.

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• Do you have an apple corer at home?
• This is a cool way to cut and eat an apple.

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• You can add fresh, crisp apples
• to a green salad.

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• What is your favorite way to eat an apple?

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Apple History
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How Do Apples Grow?

• Apple trees grow best where the average winter
  temperature is near freezing for at least 2
  months.
• Apple trees are deciduous.
• In late spring, white blossoms appear from the
  tiny buds on apple tree branches for about nine
  days and produce pollen and nectar.

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Pollination
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• Apples have been around for as long as history
  has been recorded.
• Through the rise of Greece, the fall of Persia
  and migrations to Rome and Europe, apples were
  grown and new varieties developed and taken
  throughout the world.

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• Throughout history, the popularity of apples went
  up and down and some varieties were almost lost.
• Many varieties were saved by the English church
  who began grafting apples trees and growing
• them in orchards.

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How Do We Get New Varieties?

• You can grow an apple tree with seeds from an
  apple, but dont wait around for any apples from
  that tree. it wont produce any unless you graft
  your apple tree.

The stock is the root portion a strong, healthy
tree. The scion is selected for its good fruit.
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Test Your Knowledge

• Apples contain this complex carbohydrate?
• Dietary Fiber
• What are the three types of carbohydrates?
• Starch, Dietary Fiber and Sugar
• Apple trees need ____ months of near freezing
  weather.
• Two
• True or False, you must grow an apple tree from
  seed?
• False, it must be grafted onto another tree.

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