26Coffee cherry
Coffee comes from an edible fruit. The coffee cherry is sweet and tastes like watermelon, rosewater, and hibiscus all at once.
27. Bananas have more trade regulations than AK-47s.
28. The avocado evolved to appeal to extinct megafauna (e.g. the giant armadillo) in order to facilitate seed dispersal via ingestion and excretion. This is why the avocado has such a sizeable seed.
29. Cashews, pistachios, and mangoes are all in the same family of plant, meaning people with nut allergies often react to mango as well.
30. Ethyl Formate, the chemical that gives raspberries their flavor has been found emanating from dust clouds in space.
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31Chad
Chad has the world's healthiest diet even though it is an extremely poor nation. It has access to vegetables, fruits, beans and legumes, nuts and seeds, whole grains, and fish, but almost no availability of processed meat and sugary beverages, or foods containing trans fats or sodium.
32. There is a fruit by the name of Black Sapote or "chocolate pudding fruit", which tastes like chocolate pudding and is actually low in fat and has about "4 times as much vitamin C as an orange".
33. There is a "Fruit Salad Tree" which can grow up to 6 different types of fruit.
34. It's a bad idea to use a banana for scale when taking pictures of a beehive, since the alarm pheromone to alert bees to defend their hive smells like bananas.
35. In Ancient Greece, throwing an apple at somebody meant to declare your love to them.
36Oranges
We get the word "orange" from the fruit, not vice versa, and that the colour was called "yellow-red" before we discovered the fruit.
37. All Hass avocados (the ones you get in grocery stores) descended from a single tree in California, which was planted using unknown seeds.
38. A Greek philosopher named Chrysippus died of laughter after he saw a donkey eating his figs.
39. Orange juice tastes bad after brushing because toothpaste blocks your sweet taste receptors due to a foaming agent that changes the permeability of your tongue cells.
40. The second person (Bobby Leach) ever to go down Niagra Falls in a barrel survived the feat. Later, he tripped on an orange peel and died.
