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Strawberries are the only fruit with seeds on the outside.
The ancient Romans believed that strawberries alleviated symptoms of melancholy, fainting, all inflammations, fevers, throat infections, kidney stones, bad breath, attacks of gout, and diseases of the blood, liver and spleen.
There is a museum in Belgium just for strawberries. Strawberries are a member of the rose family.
Ninety-four percent of U S households consume strawberries at least once a year.
Strawberries belong to order Rosales, family Rosaceae and genus Fragaria.
The word, 'fragaria' comes from the Latin word meaning fragrant. They can reduce the risk of cancers and heart attacks.
Strawberries are low in fat content and calorie.
In actuality strawberry is not a fruit but only an enlarged receptacle of the flower of the plant in which strawberries grow.
California provides year round supply of strawberries by way of developing new methods of cultivation and by introducing new breeds of strawberries. If all the strawberries produced in just California and in just this year alone were laid from end to end, they'd wrap around the world fifteen times!
The most famous public eating of strawberries is at Wimbledon each year, when strawberries and cream are consumed between tennis matches by properly attired English.
It is generally not known that strawberries are in the same family of the rose flower Rosaceae and are really not considered a fruit: the part we eat does not consist of the plant's ovaries the common definition of fruit , but of the hypanthium a saucer-shaped structure that holds the ovaries .
In parts of Bavaria, country folk still practice the annual rite each spring of tying small baskets of wild strawberries to the horns of their cattle as an offering to elves. They believe that the elves, are passionately fond of strawberries, will help to produce healthy calves and an abundance of milk in return.
The fruit size of the very early strawberries was very small.
Native forms of strawberries adapt to various climates and are indigenous to every major continent except Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Strawberry is even helpful for gum, and if you have a headache, it will also help, because it contains substances, similar to structure of aspirin.
The Garden strawberry is the most common type of strawberry grown commercially.
Madame Tallien - She used to bathe in strawberry juice.
They are rich in vitamin C, fiber, folic acid as well as potassium. Strawberry juice, if combined with honey can reduce inflammation.
Seventy per cent of a strawberry's roots are located in the top three inches of soil. The flavor of a strawberry is influenced by weather, the variety and stage of ripeness when harvested.
The strawberry is the only fruit with the seeds on the outside of the fruit. The plant produces succulent, red, conical fruit from tiny white flowers, and sends out runners to propagate.
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