Granny Smith facts
While investigating facts about Granny Smith Apples and Granny Smith Apple Calories, I found out little known, but curios details like:
If you planted the seeds of a Granny Smith apple, you wouldn’t get Granny Smith apple trees. Apples aren’t “true to seed”.
how many calories in a granny smith apple?
Granny Smith Apples originated by accident, when a lady dumped a crate of old rotten French crab apples in her garden and then later found an apple sapling growing there. The tree grew to produce green tart apples that had never grown before.
What to do with granny smith apples?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what to make with granny smith apples. Here are 10 of the best facts about Granny Smith Apple Nutrition and Granny Smith Game I managed to collect.
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Granny Smiths, Fujis, and Pink Ladies can all be traced back to Almaty, Kazakhstan, where the ancestor apples still grow wild there in the Tian Shan mountains.
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All "Granny Smith" Apple trees are clones (grafted not grown) of a single tree in Australia.
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Every McIntosh apple is a graft of the original tree that John McIntosh discovered on his Ontario farm in 1811, or a graft of a graft. Every Granny Smith stems from the chance seedling spotted by Maria Ann Smith in her Australian compost pile in the mid-1800s.
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There is a salad in Iowa, USA called a Snickers salad, it consists of chopped up Snicker bars, Granny Smith apples and a whipped topping.
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Best known varieties of apples are Granny Smith, Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Gala and McIntosh.
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Granny Smith was a real person. The apple variety is named after her.
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"Granny Smith" apples are named after an actual person.
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Granny Smith apples originated in Australia in 1868 when Maria Ann (Granny) Smith found a seedling growing by a creek on her property.
