【趣学英语】关于水果的冷门知识
2017-07-16 09:49:12 编辑：无 浏览：(3060次)
The average person eats 65 apples per year.
There are approximately 10,000 varieties of apples grown around the world.
The inside of banana peel can be used to polish leather shoes.
Eating bananas between meals can help expectant mothers avoid morning sickness.
Pear trees are able to withstand temperature as low as -40 degrees celsius.
The ancient Greek poet, Homer, mentions pears several times in his poems.
Pineapples are not a single fruit, but a cluster of up to 200 fruitlets.
Pineapples were once very rare, thus the name ‘King of Fruits’.
Passion fruits is sweetest when slightly wrinkled.
Passion fruits were first grown in brazil.
Oranges are technically a hesperidium, a kind of berry.
Oranges are the most commonly grown tree fruit in the world.
Add half a cup of lemon juice to your laundry to brighten whites.
If you warm a lemon juice before squeezing, it will yield much more juice!
Strawberries are a member of the rose family.
The Romans used strawberries for a long list of medical remedies.
Limes were fed to British seamen to prevent scurvy.
Because all the lime juice they would drink, British seamen were called ‘Limeys’.
正因为他们所喝的酸橙汁，英国水兵曾经被称为吃酸橙的人。
Watermelons are 92% water!
Early explorers used watermelons as canteens to carry their water supplies.
