The Apple Cake Collection

Small sliced apples really help against diarrhea. Responsible for this is also the pectin. This binds water and ensures that the chair becomes firm again. Apple kernels - like the kernels of apricots - contain amydalin. This also ensures the bitter taste of the kernels and is degraded in the body to hydrocyanic acid. However, the content of hydrogen cyanide is so low that you can eat the cores without hesitation. Apples lower the ph value in the mouth. This reduces the caries risk. So if you do not have a toothbrush on hand, you can - for the time being - help with an apple. Conversely, the fact that apples lower the ph value makes tooth enamel vulnerable. Therefore, you should wait at least 20 to 30 minutes after eating your teeth to brush your teeth. People who eat two apples a day - or alternatively about 75 grams of dried apples, as shown by a study by Florida State University - can actually lower their cholesterol levels. Since pectins bind bile acid, the liver must produce...

The apple does not only give New York ("The Big Apple") its nickname. Constantinople and later Vienna were also called "The Golden Apple". Orchard meadows provide shelter for over 5,000 animal and plant species, making them one of the most biodiverse habitats. The oldest apple variety is the Borsdorfer Apple. He is mentioned in the early Middle Ages around 1100 in the writings of the Cistercians of the Abbey of Pforta. Friedrich Schiller was inspired to write by the smell of rotting apples. Goethe visiting him, on the other hand, did not share this inclination and had to save himself from the impending fainting of the "very fatal" smell into the fresh air. Apples ripen up to 10 times faster at room temperature. Optimal storage conditions would be a temperature of about 3 ° C at high humidity.

An apple tree must grow for about seven years from a seed until it bears fruit for the first time. He can be up to 100 years old. No wonder he is so juicy: an apple consists of 85 percent water. The rest is carbohydrates, fat, protein, minerals and vitamins. The world's largest apple was harvested by Chisato Iwasaki in Japan in 2005, according to the Guinness Book of World Records: the gem weighed 1.849 kilograms. Germans love apples: Each of them eat almost 25 kilograms a year, for instance in cake, as juice or as pure fruit. That's about two million tons in total! Apples can also be subjected to DNA analysis. The result was: the forefather of our apple was the Malus sieversii (Asian wild apple) and originally comes from the mountains of today's southern Kazakhstan.

Apples (Malus) belong to the plant genus of the pomaceous fruits (Pyrinae) from the family of the rose plants (Rosaceae), which also includes pear, raspberry, plum, almond and cherry. There are more than 30,000 apple varieties worldwide, and 2,000 varieties in Germany alone. However, only about 25 varieties are cultivated in fruit-growing. Among the best known are Boskop, Pink Lady, Gala, Cox Orange, Golden Delicious, Elstar, Gloster, Jonagold and Granny Smith. More than 30 vitamins and trace elements, 100 to 180 milligrams of potassium and many valuable minerals such as phosphorus, calcium, magnesium or iron contains one apple. These active ingredients stimulate the metabolism and purify the blood. Most of the vitamins are directly under the shell of the apple. Therefore: eat apples unpeeled if possible! Apples emit ethylene gas which accelerates the ripening of other fruits and vegetables. Therefore they should always be stored separately.