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.
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