15 Interesting Facts Аbout Apricots

Delicious and healthy apricot is a wonderful fruit. They contain a lot of vitamins, especially if they are eaten fresh, but even after heat treatment, apricots do not lose their useful properties. They are often used as a filling for pies, for making jams, various drinks, and much more, and even homemade liqueurs.

Facts Аbout Apricots

• People have known these fruits since at least the beginning of the 4th millennium BC.
• In some European countries, apricots are known as the "Armenian apple".
• If you remove the seeds from the apricots and dry the pulp, you get dried apricots. It is interesting because it contains about ten times more calories than fresh fruit.
• Europeans first got acquainted with apricots when they were brought by the army of Alexander the Great from one of his military campaigns.
• Botanists have long crossed apricots with cherry plums, and the resulting hybrid, quite tasty, by the way, was called black apricot.
• The climate in which these fruits grow directly affects their juiciness and sweetness. The warmer and the more sun, the tastier the apricots.
• Apricots are often crossed with other fruits, but more often with different varieties of plums.
• Apricots grow even in Siberia and tolerate frosts down to -45 degrees. Theoretically, you can even eat them, but no one wants to, because they are small, tough, and very sour.
• The source of the origin of these fruits is still unknown. Most likely, they appeared somewhere in the Middle East or Asia.
• Turkey ranks first in the world in the industrial cultivation of apricots.
• Dried apricots are dried apricots without pits, and apricots are with pits.
• The closest relatives of apricots are plums.
• Apricot pits taste like almonds. Sometimes they are even used to make marzipan because they are cheaper.
• Apricot is one of the few fruits that practically do not lose their beneficial and nutritional properties when dried.
• Nutritionists classify them as dietary products due to their low-calorie content.