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1. Fresh apples float on water since 25% of their volume is air.

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2. Apples are high in fiber. One apple has 5 grams of fiber, supplying about 20% of the daily recommended dietary needs.

3. Apples are best eaten with the peel since most of the fiber and antioxidants are found in the apple's peel.

4. Apples are ripe when picked.

5. Apple seeds are like human. Each seed will give a different type of apple from the planted seed.

6. The apple fruit itself is covered with a natural layer of wax to protect its high water content. Hence, fresh apples are always crisp.

The websites below gives you more information about some of the apple sayings, the juicy apple stories and the kind of apple eater you are respectively.

1. http://www.usapple.org/consumers/applebits/sayings.shtml

2. http://www.usapple.org/consumers/applebits/stories.shtml

3. http://www.usapple.org/consumers/applebits/eater.shtml