Most and Least Nutritive Fruits In World Source: Pixabay Most and Least Nutritive Fruits An analysis of the 38 commonly eaten raw (as opposed to dried) fruits shows that the one with the highest calorific value is the avocado (Persea americana) with 741 calories per edible lb. That with the lowest value is cucumber with 73 calories per lb. Avocados probably originated in Central and South America and also contain vitamins A, C. and E and 2.2% protein. Biggest Apple An apple weighing 3 lb 1 oz was reported by V. Loveridge of Ross-on Wye, England in 1965. Largest Artichoke An 8-lb artichoke was grown in 1964 at Tollerton, N Yorkshire England, by A. R. Lawson Largest Broccoli A head of broccoli weighing 28 lb 14 3/4 oz was grown in 1964 by J. T. Cooke of Huntington, W. Sussex, England. Largest Cabbage In 1865 William Collingwood of The Stalwell, County Durham, England, grew a red cabbage with a circumference of 259 in. It reputedly weighed 123 lb. Largest Carrot A carrot weighing 11 ...
REPTILES (REPTILIA) (Crocodiles, snakes, turtles, tortoises and lizards) Largest and Heaviest Reptiles The largest reptile in the world is the estuarine or salt-water crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) of Southeast Asia, northern Australia, New Guinea, the Philippines and the Solomon Islands, Adult bulls average 12-14 ft in length and scale about 1,100 lb. In 1823 a notorious man-eater 27 ft in length and weighing an estimated 4,400 lb was shot at Jala Jala on Luzon Island in the Philippines after terrorizing the neighborhood for many years. Its skull, the largest on record (if we exclude fossil remains) is now preserved in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University sity, Cambridge, Mass. Another outsized example with a reputed length of 33 ft and a maximum bodily girth of 13 ft 8 in was shot in the Bay of Bengal, India, in 1840, but the dimensions of its skull (preserved in the British Museum of Natural History, London) suggest that it must have come from a crocodile mea...