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The fruit of the tree Malus sylvestris, which has a long tradition as a ‘healthy food’; the components responsible for the 'apple effect' include high pectin content, soluble fiber and polyphenols
Apples may be useful in reducing the risk of cancer, controlling DM, favourably altering GI transit times in both constipation and diarrhea, and for cardiovascular disease, as pectin decreases cholesterol
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apple

Popular nutrition The fruit of the tree Malus sylvestris, which has a long tradition as a 'healthy food'; the components responsible for the apple's effect include its high pectin content, soluble fiber, and polyphenols. See Healthy foods.
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ap·ple

(ap'ĕl)
The edible, more-or-less spheric fruit of trees of the genus Malus.
[O.E. aeppel]
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Q. what about drinking vinger apple to keep fit?

A. 90% of the alternative medicine people use are not tested clinically. it doesn't mean they don't work, just that that no one tested them to see if they are truly useful and what is the active ingredient in them. in a site i found they gave a big list of what can apple vinegar can help you for. from acne to cholesterol, diabetes and Menstrual problems. too much if you ask me. if there were 3-5 things on the list it was reasonable. but almost 20? so you might as well take it cause it wouldn't hurt you. but i'm not sure about the usefulness. try it and let me know :)

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By the front door, we then gazed on an inviting tray of Winesaps with a printout touting the many virtues of this traditional apple variety.
As for the apples, they turn up halfway through the book in the story of John's friendship with Gwennie, an Indian apple farmer whose effort at seducing him succeeds only in leaving him with respect for a good winesap.
People are now interested in some of the antique apples like winesap and Arkansas black.
Arkansas Black originated in Benton County, Ark., in about 1870 and is speculated to be a seedling of Winesap. Medium in size, the color is a lively red, deepening on the sun-exposed side to a purplish-red or nearly black.
There are hundreds of produce items, including Fair Trade and organic bananas, Fremont and Clementine tangerines, Golden Nugget Mandarins, purple and green kohlrabi, fennel, purple carrots, red chard, rainbow chard, turnips, rutabagas, honeydews, Winesap, Jonna Gold, Braeburn, Fuji, and California Arkansas Black apples.
Varieties of apples: More than 50, including Rome Beauty, Pippin, and Winesap. Wineries in El Dorado County: About one for every variety of apple (eldoradowines.
Still others, like the Winesap, Sweet Russet, Stripey, and Spice apples are named for their distinctive tastes or color patterns or both.
A man selling Winesap apples to tourists from his roadside farmstand watches helplessly as two turkeys from his farm upset his tables:
To make her own apple-a-day luncheon feel a bit more Roman-noble, Muriel befriended the young fruit vendors; she collected their proud spotty lore, becoming an expert on ideal characteristics of today's two-cent pippin, tomorrow's two-cent winesap. If sadness be one's lot, then one became a connoisseur of sadness.
'KINNAIRD'S CHOICE' is a Tennessee apple discovered in 1855 as a possible cross between a 'Winesap' and a 'Limbertwig' Once known as the finest apple grown in middle Tennessee, it is an attractive fruit with a solid-red skin color and yellow flesh, and it's juicy and crisp to taste.
'Paula Reds' are a standard sweet apple, so we decided to mix them with 'Winesap,' a slightly acidic variety.
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