From 00c2c670400cbf5291d3352d48b1aca01b30d560 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pasha Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:08:04 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add FruitsReaserch.md --- FruitsReaserch.md | 118 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 118 insertions(+) create mode 100644 FruitsReaserch.md diff --git a/FruitsReaserch.md b/FruitsReaserch.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a8818d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/FruitsReaserch.md @@ -0,0 +1,118 @@ +##### Apple +- Cost 500 million +## Documentary: How 8 Fruits Were Bred To Be Perfect +Information taken from [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK6-mv-mksw) + +##### Apples +- Started in the 90s (farmers had lost >700 mil), old apple was being criticised +- 100,000 acres of red delicious trees +- Apples need to last 12 months being tasty to survive being stored +- Cosmic crisp parents are honey crisp and enterprise for crispness and storage +- Took thousands of trials and errors, planted 10,000 trees (only used 1) +- Used iodine to test when it was best to harvest +- 12000 acres of trees for cosmic crisp +- 10.5 million have gone into marketing the apple, it has its own commercial + +##### Ruby Roman Grapes +- Largest red grape +- Japanese culture, fruits are considered a luxury and gift item, wont be sold if they have any blemishes or wrong size +- Induvial test each grapes colour, size and sugar percentage (<18%) +- "Premium" is 1 in 1000 sold, none qualified in 2019 and 2020 +- Very sweet and juicy +- Harvesting starts in July +- Grown in greenhouses, each grape is monitored +- Grape thinning devices are used +- Controls the amount of light so the colour is perfect via adding/removing leaves using a propriety phone app +- Temperature over 30 degrees make it white not red +- 25000 bunches up for sale in 2020, started being sold in 2008 +- Started being developed in1995 for a new large red grape + +##### Miyazaki Mangoes +- "Egg of the sun" +- Farmed in Japan and auctioned off +- From the Irwin mango variety, turn red when ripe +- Very common, grown in other parts of the world +- Expensive due to the amount of care it receives +- Bees are rented during the flowering season for pollination - bigger mangoes +- Fruits that aren't pollenated are removed +- Only ones that are in good shape, visibly contain pits and in good position are sold +- Temperature is kept at a constant, the room is ventilated, dehumidified +- Mangoes protected from gravity +- Sun makes them red, poor colour = lower sugar content +- If a mango falls into shade it is hung up +- Light reflectors (made out of milk cartons) are attached to the mango so it receives more light, also means more balanced +- First inspection is done by human eye to make sure they are the correct shade of red +- Sorted by sugar content (above 15%) and size (more than 350 grams and 2L in size standard) +- Only 10% of mangoes become taiyo no tomago +- Most expensive sell for 500,000 yen or 2300 GBP + +##### Pitayas +- Good for 24 hours after harvesting before loosing flavour and texture +- Type of dragon fruit +- Grows on organ pipe cacti - can only be grown in Mexico and parts of the US +- Very colourful and flavourful +- Harvests in night, early morning using a long stick +- Only available around 60 days a year +- Each cacti only gives 60 fruit a year and takes 8 years to grow +- Made of 85% water +- Spines are removed by hand before selling, very delicate process +- Praised for their sweetness +- Come in 4 different colours: White red purple and yellow +- Up to triple the price depending on the distance transported +- Bumpy drives can cause the pitayas to rot + +##### Durian +- Grown in Thailand (300 varieties) +- Known for the unpleasant smell but also a sign of respect +- Refined and sweet pulp with a mild fragrance and creamy texture +- Lesser grade have a stronger smell and watery texture +- Grow Indian coral trees and legumes to nurture the soil +- Fresh water is bought (2200 a year) to water the trees, watered daily +- Take 6 years for a tree to bear fruit +- Harvesting season lasts for 90 to 150 days +- Each durian is protected in a plastic bag +- Harvested individually +- Hard to care for the trees with the pollution and climate crisis +- The older the tree, the tastier the fruit + +##### (Golden) Kiwis +- Developed through cross breeding different yellow kiwis +- Smaller and sweeter +- "Designer" fruit +- Cant be grown without copyright permission from zespri - 14 million fine +- Hairless - Easily damaged +- Gloves are worn to avoid fingernails damaged +- Before harvesting a sample from the orchard must meet a criteria +- Takes 5 years for a tree to be ready +- Pruned and grown on a canopy +- Golden kiwi orchards produce less per tree than green +- Every kiwi is inspected to ensure the quality +- Lasts around 7 days ripe + +##### Bananas +- Ripen in transport +- No seeds so can't be planted +- All genetic copies so very susceptible to diseases +- Biosecurity is now in place around the farms to stop fungus (cost millions) +- Cleaned with chlorine to stop insects +- Thrown into water to wash off the latex on the peel and preserves them +- Packaging has holes to allow for ripening +- Fungus goes into the soil, all area needs to be removed +- Trying to find a new banana to resist the fungus +- One exists but it is genetically modified (rejected) +- There are lots of breeds of bananas but there is mainly only one eaten + +##### Buddhas Hand +- Sold in Vietnam +- Very little juice, pulp or taste +- The rind is what is tasty +- Fragrance is cool and pleasant +- Used in Vietnamese culture +- Harvesting all the fruits at once kills the trees as it has water that it doesn't know what to do with +- Gets rotten easily in the rain +- Requires lots of attention and care +- Take 10 years for the tree to bear fruit +- The more it looks like a hand the more it can be sold for +- Stays fresh for a long time +- Insects are very interested to the fruit and can destroy it easily, around 5-7% is destroyed +- Fingers can get broken off very easily