Nutrition Tidbits
Ode to Strawberries
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Over 53 percent of seven to
nine-year-olds picked strawberries as their favorite fruit.
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 Madame Tallien, a
prominent figure at the court of the Emperor Napoleon, was famous for
bathing in the juice of fresh strawberries. She used 22 pounds per basin.
Needless to say, she did not bathe daily.
- There is a museum in
Belgium just for strawberries.
- The ancient Romans
believed that strawberries alleviated symptoms of melancholy, fainting, all
inflammations, fevers, throat infections, kidney stones, bad breath, attacks
of gout, and diseases of the blood, liver and spleen.
- Strawberries are the only
fruit with seeds on the outside.
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