Comments on: Apple Picking - A Tasty Temptation http://www.onlivingbylearning.com/2007/10/16/apple-picking-a-tasty-temptation/ Learn, Grow, Explore, Change the World Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:36:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Anonymous http://www.onlivingbylearning.com/2007/10/16/apple-picking-a-tasty-temptation/#comment-9 Anonymous Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:08:00 +0000 http://www.onlivingbylearning.com/?p=29#comment-9 I want to know what do they do with all that corn in the maze? It is past the prime. Does the money they make from the maze outweigh the loss in crop, do they use it later foe cattle feed?<br/>Dad I want to know what do they do with all that corn in the maze? It is past the prime. Does the money they make from the maze outweigh the loss in crop, do they use it later foe cattle feed?
Dad

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.onlivingbylearning.com/2007/10/16/apple-picking-a-tasty-temptation/#comment-8 Anonymous Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:02:00 +0000 http://www.onlivingbylearning.com/?p=29#comment-8 Can we keep the apple in Kayla's mouth?<br/>I tried "stumbling" but the site froze.<br/>Dad Can we keep the apple in Kayla’s mouth?
I tried “stumbling” but the site froze.
Dad

]]> By: Denise http://www.onlivingbylearning.com/2007/10/16/apple-picking-a-tasty-temptation/#comment-7 Denise Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:59:00 +0000 http://www.onlivingbylearning.com/?p=29#comment-7 The U.S. Apple Association says, the white film on apples is wax. Apples produce a natural wax to protect their water content. <br/><br/>Without the wax, apples would lose moisture and leave them soft and dry. The apple association says after apples are harvested they are washed and brushed. This cleaning process removes the fruit's original wax coating so many apple packers will re-apply a commercial wax to protect the fruit. <br/><br/>The association says, one pound of wax can cover as many as one hundred-sixty-thousand pieces of fruit, with about two drops being used to cover one apple. <br/><br/>http://www.usapple.org/consumers/wax.cfm The U.S. Apple Association says, the white film on apples is wax. Apples produce a natural wax to protect their water content.

Without the wax, apples would lose moisture and leave them soft and dry. The apple association says after apples are harvested they are washed and brushed. This cleaning process removes the fruit’s original wax coating so many apple packers will re-apply a commercial wax to protect the fruit.

The association says, one pound of wax can cover as many as one hundred-sixty-thousand pieces of fruit, with about two drops being used to cover one apple.

http://www.usapple.org/consumers/wax.cfm

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