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Apple Hill growers ring up sales as health experts praise value of fruit – from the Sacramento Bee

Apple Hill just finished its busiest weekend of the year,  said Ann Wofford, director of the Apple Hill Growers Association, a collection  of 55 orchards and other agricultural businesses in El Dorado County.

Liz Applegate, a Ph.D. nutritionist at the University of California, Davis, is promoting the apple as  vigorously as she does all year.

“It does more than keep a doctor away,” she said, alluding to its  weight-control benefits.

 

 

Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/10/19/3988237/apple-hill-growers-ring-up-sales.html#ixzz1bF5oS8jH

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