{"id":299,"date":"2024-06-10T01:10:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T01:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/agotago\/?p=299"},"modified":"2024-06-10T01:10:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T01:10:39","slug":"back-to-adam-the-long-history-of-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/agotago\/2024\/06\/10\/back-to-adam-the-long-history-of-apples\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Adam? The long history of apples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>University of Otago agricultural innovation student Aaron Hewson has learned a lot about apples since he started researching one of our favourite fruits.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is an old English proverb: an apple a day keeps the doctor away. When we walk into a supermarket or go to the farmers market, we might get a choice of 10 different kinds of apples to shoo away that dastardly doctor. Perhaps this seems like a lot of options compared to the single choice of Cavendish banana we get, but it pales in comparison to the 20,000 named apple varieties found throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>Read here; <a href=\"https:\/\/sod.co.nz\/2024\/06\/07\/an-introduction-to-apples\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/sod.co.nz\/2024\/06\/07\/an-introduction-to-apples\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Otago agricultural innovation student Aaron Hewson has learned a lot about apples since he started researching one of our favourite fruits. There is an old English proverb: an apple a day keeps the doctor away. When we walk into a supermarket or go to the farmers market, we might get a choice of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/agotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/agotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/agotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/agotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/agotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/agotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/agotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/agotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/agotago\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}