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TOP 10 Apple producers

In this article, the Top Ten Apple Producers in 2008 are stated to be China, USA, Iran, Turkey, Russia, Italy, India, France, Chile, and Argentina. Clearly, Poland is missing on the third place, with a production of 2,830,870 tonnes per year! This data can also be derived from the source named (FAO: http://faostat.fao.org ).

The TOP TEN would have to be China 29,851,163 United States of America 4,431,280 Poland 2,830,870 Iran 2,660,000 Turkey 2,504,490 Italy 2,208,227 India 2,001,400 France 1,940,200 Russian Federation 1,467,000 Chile 1,370,000

Sterfaine (talk) 13:58, 19 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

TOP 10 Apple producers

In this article, the Top Ten Apple Producers in 2008 are stated to be China, USA, Iran, Turkey, Russia, Italy, India, France, Chile, and Argentina. Clearly, Poland is missing on the third place, with a production of 2,830,870 tonnes per year! This data can also be derived from the source named (FAO: http://faostat.fao.org ).

The TOP TEN would have to be China 29,851,163 United States of America 4,431,280 Poland 2,830,870 Iran 2,660,000 Turkey 2,504,490 Italy 2,208,227 India 2,001,400 France 1,940,200 Russian Federation 1,467,000 Chile 1,370,000

Sterfaine (talk) 13:58, 19 August 2010 (UTC) I agree, should be corrected immidietly! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.186.75.70 (talk) 21:20, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

http://faostat.fao.org/site/339/default.aspx —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.186.75.70 (talk) 21:29, 2 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please include the following information (concerning cholesterol-lowering effect of apples) into the article

The cholesterol-lowering effect of apple consumption is not actually caused just by the fact that apples do not contain any cholesterol (which is true for all fruits and vegetables), are bulky for their caloric content, etc. No, I think these statements alone are too general. Research on the subject shows much more detail.

For one thing, it seems that this beneficial effect of apples on cholesterol is more potent than that of other fruits (for further information, please look into the study comparing orange pectin to apple pectin - it is mentioned below in references). Moreover, it can be attributed to more specific elements than just "fiber", i.e. apple polyphenols and pectin, and to their highly synergistic combination. Also, I think it is very important to note that this has also been tested in moderately obese human subjects, in a clinical setting. 12-week ingestion of apple polyphenol-containing capsules significantly decreased total cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol levels in those people.

References: 1. Aprikian O, Duclos V, Guyot S, Besson C, Manach C, Bernalier A, Morand C, Rémésy C, Demigné C. Apple pectin and a polyphenol-rich apple concentrate are more effective together than separately on cecal fermentations and plasma lipids in rats. J Nutr. 2003 Jun;133(6):1860-5. 2. González M, Rivas C, Caride B, Lamas MA, Taboada MC. Effects of orange and apple pectin on cholesterol concentration in serum, liver and faeces. J Physiol Biochem. 1998 Jun;54(2):99-104. 3. Nagasako-Akazome Y, Kanda T, Ohtake Y, Shimasaki H, Kobayashi T. Apple polyphenols influence cholesterol metabolism in healthy subjects with relatively high body mass index. J Oleo Sci. 2007;56(8):417-28.

--83.31.151.164 (talk) 17:18, 3 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Greek Kallisti is spelled wrong.

There should be an iota subscript under the eta (last letter) in Kallisti to make the word a dative. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.137.139.168 (talk) 03:58, 4 November 2010 (UTC) That is totally wrong. I'm like, totally freaking out! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.190.209.16 (talk) 01:17, 10 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

fruit ≠ tree

The apple is the pomaceous fruit of the apple tree ... and is a perennial.

The fruit is a perennial? Is this a usage with which I'm unfamiliar, or a poorly-built sentence? (I'm not gonna change it before asking.) —Tamfang (talk) 06:29, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

For the term apple- Would you call is vascular or nonvascular? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.206.58.208 (talk) 21:23, 21 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

i want to know what a apple has inside to make the apple float in hot water and in milk that is what i really want to know? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.204.176.151 (talk) 05:20, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

the fruits and stuff are all made in jamaica — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.95.148.56 (talk) 02:30, 25 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Possible Mistake on Nutritional Value

Quote: " Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz) Carbohydrates 13.81 g Sugars 10.39 g Dietary fiber 2.4 g Fat 0.17 g Protein 0.26 g Water 85.56 g "

Adding of these numbers is equal to 112.9 g. But it says "in 100g". Therefore, there can be a mistake.

Apple Tree

Why does Apple Tree point to an article that's nearly entirely about the fruit itself? There is quite a lot of distinctive information about the tree that is neither included nor appropriate for inclusion in this article covering the fruit. Thistledowne (talk) 19:07, 1 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Allergies

The part about the food allergies is wrong...it's not that birch pollen is present on the surface of the apple, but proteins in the apple, and if you are allergic to birch pollen you will also be allergic to the apple proteins.

Since this article is semi-protected, I can't edit, maybe someone could change this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.62.3.203 (talk) 02:35, 19 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm removing the "triploid" comment

I'm removing the comment about triploids, because it's unreferenced and doesn't have any explanation associated with it. If it's to go back, I think we need some explanation of why apples are triploids, how they became triploids, and how this fits in with the "extreme heterozygotes" comment. Even the original commit said that it was "contradictory",

This is because seedling apples are an example of "extreme heterozygotes", in that rather than inheriting DNA from their parents to create a new apple with those characteristics, they are instead different from their parents, sometimes radically.[28] Triploids have an additional reproductive barrier in that the 3 sets of chromosomes cannot be divided evenly during meiosis, yielding unequal segregation of the chromosomes (aneuploids). cojoco (talk) 21:55, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I'm not removing it, because it is referenced. However, it's still contradictory, and needs more explanation to make any sense.

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	''This is because seedling apples are an example of "extreme heterozygotes", in that rather than inheriting DNA from their parents to create a new apple with those characteristics, they are instead different from their parents, sometimes radically.[28] Triploids have an additional reproductive barrier in that the 3 sets of chromosomes cannot be divided evenly during meiosis, yielding unequal segregation of the chromosomes (aneuploids). </i>'' [[User:Cojoco\|cojoco]] ([[User talk:Cojoco\|talk]]) 21:55, 27 May 2011 (UTC)		''This is because seedling apples are an example of "extreme heterozygotes", in that rather than inheriting DNA from their parents to create a new apple with those characteristics, they are instead different from their parents, sometimes radically.[28] Triploids have an additional reproductive barrier in that the 3 sets of chromosomes cannot be divided evenly during meiosis, yielding unequal segregation of the chromosomes (aneuploids). </i>'' [[User:Cojoco\|cojoco]] ([[User talk:Cojoco\|talk]]) 21:55, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

			Actually, I'm not removing it, because it ''is'' referenced. However, it's still contradictory, and needs more explanation to make any sense.