FEW ASTONISHING FACTS..

I always thought chocolates were harmful but according to this newsmail article i found it was beneficial ------

The Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity or ORAC is a scientific measurement of the antioxidant capabilities of a food. The higher the ORAC value, the greater its antioxidant properties. In tests, surprisingly chocolate has a greater ORAC value than many healthy foods which are touted as being high in antioxidants. For example, blueberries are one of the healthiest fruits around. Blueberries have an ORAC value of around 8700. Dark chocolate has an ORAC value of 13,000 units. And even milk chocolate, which has only a fraction of the antioxidants of dark chocolate, has an ORAC value of 6,700.
BUT
Just because chocolate can be good for you doesn’t mean that you can eat all that you want. Chocolate has a high fat content, and even though much of it is good fat, too much of any kind of fat is not good for you. In addition, just because chocolate is healthy, doesn’t mean that candy bars or chocolate cake is healthy. Candy bars, in addition to chocolate, have caramel, nuts, nougat, and all kinds of other materials which are not particularly healthy. The same is true for chocolate cake which usually comes with unhealthy frosting – which is essentially butter and sugar.

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APPLES PRODUCED TODAY ARE MOSTLY CLONES..THIS I KNEW BUT I DID NOT HAVE THE EXACT INFO OF QUANTITIES ..I GOT THAT INFO TOO TODAY..

The science of growing apples is called pomology
* The Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans all practiced grafting their favorite apple varieties to other apple rootstocks
* 7,500 varieties of apples are grown throughout the world
* In 2001, Americans ate an average of 45.2 pounds of fresh apples and processed apple products
* The pilgrims planted the first U.S. apple trees in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
* The largest apple ever picked weighed three pounds
* Actress Gwyneth Paltrow named her baby daughter Apple