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OPTIONS for a delicious mea! or snack are plentiful
when you've got apples. Combine them with sharp: ;

cheese for a tasty soup.

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FOR several thousands
of years apples have
been a significant com-
ponent of human food
intake and nutrition.

Most apples are hardy,
and easy to grow.

In North America about
2,000 varieties can be found,
but the bulk of commercial
retail varieties are less than
two dozen in number.

Commercial apples are
usually those easy to ship and
store and with uniformity in
color and shape. Red
Delicious, Granny Smith,
Northern Spy, Gravenstein,
MacIntoshes, and the Rome
are all available at various
times of t! ¢ year.

In 1996, British Colum-
bia produced 253,176,000
Ib. fresh wholesale.

Farm and roadside sales
were close to a million tb.
The total value of the "96
apple crop was just under
$50 million.

The provincial producers
face strong competition from
imports, most of it from the

.C. apples

U.S. and New Zealand. :

In 1996, imports to B.C.
alone were a staggering $38 .
million, The current weak- -
ness of the Canadian dollar
should prove helpful to our
farmers.

Using apples in traditional
baking and cooking formulas
is healthy, attractive, and
inexpensive, There - other
ways to enjoy apples: ciders,
cider vinegars, calvados,
apple brandy, apple icathers,
apple chips, apple butter, and
of course apple j juice.

Appics caniain lots of vit-
amin C, fiber, good natural
fruit sugar, and because of
their fresh cating quality, sar-

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