Most office fruit fans out there know apples are a healthy treat to pick from the office fruit delivery.
They're rich in cancer-fighting antioxidants which counter cell and tissue damage from free radicals in the body.
Now, scientists have managed to crack the genetic code of apples, which could result in even crunchier, juicier and healthier fruits ending up in the office fruit box some time soon.
The researchers are using the information to try and produce new varieties of apple, including ones that help suppress appetite, that will be available within the next five years.
Dr Roger Hellens, at New Zealand's Institute of Plant and Food Research, said: "Now we have the sequence of the apple genome, we will be able to identify the genes which control the characters that our sensory scientists have identified as most desired by consumers – crispness, juiciness and flavour."
If all these developments in apple production do become a reality, it could further promote the idea that eating one-a-day keeps the doctor away.
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