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Happy Fall!

Fall is here and it seems like everyone is planing a trip to go apple picking.

There are so many wonderful things about apples, and just about everyone loves them.

Did you know that apples are a very important fruit? Not only are they packed with vitamins for a healthy diet, apples can also help clean teeth.

Keep reading for some fyi’s on how apples help keep teeth and gums healthy.

Eating An Apple Is Almost Like Using A Toothbrush

Eating an apple can help remove plaque from teeth and gums.

How Is This Possible?

1. Apples contain a specific acid called malic acid which can break down plaque that accumulates on the teeth and gums.
2. Biting into and chewing an apple stimulates more saliva to be produced and flow into the mouth. More saliva helps wash away food particles and bacteria. This also helps by diluting and washing away sugars that are attached to the teeth.
3. Apples are 85% water which also helps dilute sugars in the mouth.

Apples Are Great Snacks

Apples make great snacks with their natural sweetness and high fiber content.

An apple’s natural sweetness decreases cravings for other higher sugar content snacks. The fiber keeps children full longer so they snack less. By being high in water apples are naturally juicy so your child is less likely to ask for sugary beverages.

10 Fun Apple Facts

1. There are more than 2,500 varieties of apples are grown in the U.S.
2. The most popular apples are Red Delicious, Fuji, Golden Delicious, McIntosh, Rome, Granny Smith, and Gala.
3. A bushel of apples weighs almost 42 pounds.
4. Bobbing for apples – apples float so easily since they are 25% air.
5. Apple trees take about 4-5 years to produce their first apples.
6. It takes 36 apples to make 1 gallon of apple cider.
7. Apples belong to the rose family.
8. Apples have no fat, sodium, or cholesterol.
9. Apples ripen 6-10 times quicker at room temperature than when they are refrigerated.
10. Johnny Appleseed was in fact a real person.

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