Cherries are very tasty fruits that are also used to make juice.
Cherry is a really nice and popular fruit. Let’s find out more about it!
- A cherry is the fruit of many plants.
- It belongs to the genus Prunus.
- Commercial cherries are obtained from cultivars of several species.
- The name ‘cherry’ also refers to the cherry tree and its wood.
- Sometimes it applies to almonds and visually similar flowering trees in the genus Prunus.
- Wild cherry may refer to any of the cherry species growing outside cultivation.
- Cherry trees require a certain number of chilling hours each year to break dormancy and bloom and produce fruit.
- Cherries blossom in April in the Northern Hemisphere.
- The peak season for the cherry harvest is in the summer.
- In southern Europe, it’s time to harvest them in June, whereas in England in mid-July.
- In an average crop year, a sweet cherry tree will produce 800 cherries.
- Archaeologists have discovered fossilized cherry pits in prehistoric caves throughout Europe and Asia.
- The earliest written mention of cherries comes from the Greek author Theophrastus.
- There are more than 500 varieties of sweet cherries.
- Around 20 or so altogether are used in commercial production.
- For a few years in the late ‘80s, the U.S. led the world in cherry production.
- In 1990, Turkey claimed the title.
- Today it produces 535,000 tons annually to the U.S.’s 345,000.
- The word “cherry” may be originated from ancient Greek.
- January 3rd is National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day in the U.S.A.
- Michigan hosts official cherry pit-spitting contests.
- Traverse City in Michigan celebrates the annual National Cherry Festival since 1925.
- Records indicate that cherries were a prized food in a region of China dating back to 600 BC.
- They have long been a popular dessert fruit.
- Also, some kind of really sweet cherries is used at the top of a cake to decorate it.
- Cherries were used for their medicinal purposes in the 15th and 16th centuries.
- The world’s heaviest cherry was grown by Gerardo Maggipinto in Italy.
- It weighed 0.76 oz and it was harvested on June 21 in 2003.
- Canada holds the record of baking the largest cherry – pie in the world!
- Maraschino cherries are usually used when making cocktails.
- Cherries are like bodyguards.
- They slow down aging and ward off chronic illnesses- including heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, and obesity.
