United States consumers eat an average of 45.5 pounds of apples. 61 percent of United States apples are eaten as fresh fruit. The top apple producing state is Washington. Apples are fat, sodium, and cholesterol free. A medium apples is about 80 calories.
Apples are a great source of fiber.
One apple has five grams of fiber. In 1997 there were 9,000 apple growers with orchards covering 453,200 acres. The pilgrims planted the first United States apple trees in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The science of apple growing is called pomology. Apple trees take four to five years to produce their first fruit.