Many of us think having a healthy diet is to follow strict limitations, which includes being unrealistically thin or depriving oneself of having foods that one loves. Trust me! It’s not that sought but rather it’s about feeling great, being more energetic, and having a fresh mood.

Healthy eating does not need to be way too complex, but rather we can be healthy just by eating various kinds of fruits every day. The main cornerstone of healthy food is to replace processed foods with that of a natural one. Though many of us over here must be aware of the famous proverb “An apple a day keeps a doctor away”, and it even holds in each and everyone’s life. Even I remember my childhood days, where I used to give any kind of excuse just to save myself from not eating fruits. My childhood mind was too childish to even acknowledge the benefits it holds. There has been an increasing linkage between dietary fruits and vegetable intake, which will have an ultimate impact on human health.

Now let’s surprise your mind, with some of the most interesting facts about one of my favourite fruits ‘Apple’. You all must be thinking why have I chosen such a topic to write about? It’s just because many of us have become so enrooted in our daily busy life, that we rarely give importance to our health. So let’s begin by asking some questions, what is the most important part of our body, which enables us to reason out things, and perceive this world? I think you all must have got the answer, ‘human brain’.

Boosting up a human brain? Eat an Apple

Isn’t it a surprising fact? That sometimes, we tend to forget the most important things in our life. Well, it’s a common tendency of human beings. We will have medicines in our hands, but still, forget to eat it. Don’t you remember your childhood memories, where we used to enter our rooms but we usually forget our main purpose of entering that room? The human brain is quite a complex thing, the more we try to understand it, the more it gets complicated.

Do you remember the days, when we used to spend our precious childhood days with our grandparents, sitting in an orchard and listening to their long tales about their strength, how they used to play and their stories about the ghost were unforgettable and irreplaceable? Well, you all must be thinking why am I talking about my childhood days? And how is it related to my topic? Surprisingly even I was not planning to tell my anecdote, but sometimes, revisiting one’s past is the greatest healer during an adverse situation, especially when you are left with no options.

Earlier people used to die at an age of 90 or even 100, but now the mortality rate has been decreased to 40-55 or a maximum 60. Do you ever wonder why it happens? Well, the answer to this is quite simple. Earlier people used to find tranquillity in nature, their pastime food was eating fruits and nature made vegetables, and they were not relying on packaged fruits and artificial vegetables. That’s the reason which made their immunity system quite strong, and even their memories were excellent, especially the way they used to narrate their short anecdote, with little and minute details.

The reason behind their precise and accurate details was their excellent memories. And do you know how it came? It came from eating ‘apples’ and many other fresh fruits. Though in Christianity, ‘Apple’ was referred to as a forbidden fruit, their reasons were quite different. Here if someone wants to improve their memory one should go for eating apples. Even I would say “Why to lose memories, go and eat an apple while reading theories”.

Scientific Facts about Apples

Now, let’s come to minute details. ‘Apple’ contains a hormone, named acetylcholine, and few scientific facts state that this hormone is responsible for boosting up the human brain, especially it improves one’s memories. You will be surprised to know one more fact that people nowadays are dying more from heart attacks and strokes. And if anyone knows eating apples reduces one’s cholesterol level by two-third and trust me it’s an incredible fact. While going through several articles, in one of those articles, it was stated that ‘eating apples’ reduces the risk of lung cancer in both genders.

Thus as stated above, what matters the most, is one’s health. Thus I just want to ask you all one question, after reading these all facts, do you think that one should invest one’s money on processed food rather than a natural one. Let’s take an oath, rather than dying a slow death, we should try to fight these diseases by eating healthy food because one needs to eat “Healthy food for a wealthy mood”.

Are Apples the Part of Your Daily Food Intake?

While you must be surprised after knowing all these facts, to be frank as stated above sometimes ‘the cures of our problems are in our hands’’ but still we tend to overlook them. Now I would just like to ask one thing “Are apples part of your daily food intake?” If not it’s never too late to work on good things, just grab every second to improve your health and immunity, as at last what matters is one’s memories; “As things end, but one’s memories last forever”. During the present time, we need to take into consideration that what matters the most, is one’s health, especially when millions of people are dying from different deadly diseases.

If we try to analyze the present scenario that is of COVID-19, we need to take things seriously to improve our immunity system. We need to understand one thing, that eating nature can only cure us of all diseases, even if it can be used as precautionary measures. Someone has rightly said, “nature is one of the greatest healers”.

Even during the present time, instead of investing our money on something which would only deteriorate our health. We need to go for natural fruits and vegetables. Nowadays, youngsters are becoming more health-conscious. They don’t want to compromise with their ‘abs’ and ‘figure’. Thus, many of them think fruits contain many calories thus would ultimately increase our weight. Now, let’s try to debunk this myth.

Are Apples weight-loss-friendly or fattening?

No matter how much nutrition an apple holds, but we still wonder whether they are ‘fattening’ or ‘weight-loss’ friendly. To your surprise, a medium-sized apple contains 86% of water, thus it helps in hydrating one’s body as well as calorie-density. Apart from this, if we try to analyze other scientific facts, it contains loss-friendly fibre, and many studies show that intake of high amount fibre results in weight-loss. Thus, I would just like to tell those of you who believe eating fruits may increase your weight, it’s just a myth, and nothing of that is sought. So just try to remember one thing “A healthy outside, starts from healthy inside”.

Now let us try to look at the other dimensions of it. We, students, have a general tendency of not waking up early in the morning, so what do you do to wake up early? To be frank, I prefer to have a cup of coffee or tea, because I believe they are the best medicines that one should go for. But surprisingly, as I was searching many facts for writing this article, I came across one interesting fact, which stated, not coffee, but eating an apple is much more efficient in waking you up than a coffee. Even though I was not able to digest this fact, I tried to probe deeper and deeper, and then I got some information about it.

Are apples better at waking you up?

As stated above, apart from providing nutrition and other health benefits, it proves quite beneficial in waking us up early in the morning. What can sound more interesting than this? It is difficult, especially for the younger generation who are the victims of either insomnia or have excess sleep syndrome symptoms. Though it does not contain any kind of caffeine, it still proves to be better than coffee. You all must be wondering what’s the reason behind this? It’s just because it contains 12-13 grams of natural sugar, thus helping in improving our sleep cycle.

The things which we ignore the most prove to be the best things for us. No matter how much we avoid eating fruits, but sooner or later we will regret not knowing the true benefits of it. One should always remember, investing money on taking medicines is not a suggestive alternative, but rather than one should invest it in eating nutritious fruits for their well being. ‘A healthy mind comes from healthy food’ and trust me no one can deny this fact. I would just like to quote Thomas Edison who once said: “The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.”

Export of Apple from India

Apple is exported from India to around 80 countries in the world. In the year 2019-2020, apple export from India was worth 2.64 USD million. The total volume of export of apples from India in 2019-20 is around 2293010 metric tons. Apple exporters from India mainly exported apples to Germany, Saudi Arabia, Nepal, Lebanon, Qatar, UAE, UK and so on and so forth.