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Nectarine and Sweet Cherry Facts


Sweet Cherry and Nectarine Facts


Facts

Facts about
  • The name ‘nectarine’ is with reference to the sweet food the gods eat, ‘nectar’.
  • Nectarines are sometimes called ‘shaved peaches’ because their skin is smooth with no fuzz.
  
  • The word cherry is derived from the Turkish town of Cerasus.
  • In Oliver, British Columbia, a pie of 39,683 pounds was baked which holds the record of biggest cherry pie.
  • National cherry cheese cake day is on April 23.
  

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Beer
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Top Producer
China   
Turkey   

Other Countries
Argentina, Chile, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Italy, Spain, Turkey, United States of America   
Austria, Chile, China, France, Germany, Greece, Iran, Italy, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Syria, Ukraine, United States of America, Uzbekistan   

Top Importer
Germany   
Russia   

Top Exporter
Spain   
Poland   

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