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Although thousands of apple cultivars are known around the world, barely twenty varieties are widely available in local supermarkets. Those twenty varieties account for 90 per cent of all apples consumed.
Every seed in an apple contains the genetic material for a completely new kind of apple. Each generation looks and tastes different.
The Elizabethan herbalist John Gerard recommended a poultice of apples for swelling and wrote that ‘the pulp of roasted apples mixed to a froth in water and drunk by the quart, has benefited those with gonorrhoea’.
Did people REALLY follow this to get well?
In North America alone, some 14,000 apple varieties have been named and nurtured over the last four centuries, and thousands more are known worldwide.
What happened to all the apples?
Capitalism. That is what.
