This is a medium size apple.
Crisp juicy flesh with a sweet rich flavour.
You cannot over eat them & studies show that enjoying an apple between a meal decreases total calorie intake at that meal.
Natures perfect weight loss food are apples.
Eat them raw, sprinkled with cinnamon or baked as a seasonal treat.
We NEVER sell imported apples ever!
If buying more apples than you can eat quickly, store them in a plastic bag in the produce draw of your refrigerator.
Apples can help prevent constipation, improve lung function, & lower the risk of heart disease.
A compound known as quercetin is found in apples, which are broken down by the body & helps prevent chronic inflammation that results in the thickening of the arteries, blood clotting in the arteries etc... Thus decreasing the risk of heart disease.
You cannot over eat them & studies show that enjoying an apple between a meal decreases total calorie intake at that meal.
Natures perfect weight loss food are apples.
Eat them raw, sprinkled with cinnamon or baked as a seasonal treat.
Research published in the Journal Frontiers in Microbiology.
The researchers tested all of the parts of the apple including the skin, stem, flesh, peel, seeds & calyx, which is the fluffy bit at the bottom where the flower used to be.
They found that if you ate a whole 240g apple, seeds & all, you'd ingesting about 100 million bactaria. Most of us don't actually eat the core, so our intake would fall to a mere 10 million bacteria.
Although still in it's infancy, research around gut microbiome is showing that the richer & more diverse the community of microbes you have in your gut, the lower your risk of disease & allergies may be.
The study also found that the ammount of bactaria in organic and non-organic apples was the same, however, the variety was vastly different.
The organic apples were found to have much higher diversity in their bacterial community & a significantly higher level of a specific microbe called methylobacterium. This microbe is known to enhance strawberry-flavoured compounds & could be part of the reason why diehard organic apple eaters claim they taste better than the standard variety.
So, the old wives tale an apple a day keeps the doctors away might be true after all, thanks to the apple being such a great home to millions of delicious bacteria.
Nutrition Information
Serving size: 1 apple - 130g
Avg Quantity per serving | Avg Quantity per 100g | |
---|---|---|
Energy (kJ/Cal) | 277/66 | 213/51 |
Protein (g) | 0.3 | 0.2 |
Fat, total (g) | 0.4 | 0.3 |
- saturated (g) | 0.02 | 0.02 |
carbohydrate (g) | 13.9 | 10.7 |
- sugars (g) | 13.5 | 10.4 |
Fibre (g) | 2.7 | 2.0 |
Sodium (mg) | 0 | 0 |
Vitamin C (mg) | 5 | 5 |
Source: The Concise New Zealand Food Composition Tables, 12th Edition, Plant & Food Research
2018