Comparing in class assignment

Doesn’t everyone enjoy a good apple or orange?  They’re nutritious, juicy, tasty - having similar growing qualities.  Don’t the two words just seem to make your salivary glands go wild?  All in all, I think they have more similarities than differences.  Don’t you?    

Both Apples and Oranges are tremendously nutritious. Stocked full of Vitamin C these fruits are very beneficial to a person’s health. Vitamin C is a chemical compound and according to LiveStrong.com, vitamin C assists in healing wounds and helps prevent infections in a person’s body (“Benefits of Oranges”). Both of these great fruits also help improve cardiovascular health due to the rich amounts of vitamin C they contain.

Both apples and oranges owe their large amounts of vitamin C to the fact that they grow on trees. In fact, their trees are very closely genetically related. According to resident apple tree expert bitbutter www, “Given enough generations of geneticists to tend for the trees, with enough resources at their disposal, I believe it’d be possible to create a descendant of an apple tree that was very similar to orange trees as we currently know...” Also, both types of trees are grown by humans in orchards, and their respective fruits are cultivated by similar methods.

Those methods both the same result a delicious and juicy fruit. Oranges are juicier than apples when you bite into them but they both make great tasting juice. Depending on what you like to eat you might not fancy them.  Because they are sweet, therefore many people think they are also delicious. According to greenfreshgiant.com “oranges are loved by adults and kids alike.”

Apples and oranges are extremely delicious and similar. PhDs have said so, the prime example being James E Barone, surgeon in chief of Stamford Hospital Connecticut. He said in the British Medical Journal of 2000 that “A striking and heretofore unappreciated similarity was noted. In only one category, that of “involvement of Johnny Appleseed,” was a statistically significant difference between the two fruits found.”  With all the similarities in the methods of production, they do in fact ‘grow on trees’, even though they aren’t free. Then all the similarities of taste, and nutrition the similarities far outweigh the differences. Which while they exist are clearly less important than the similarities.

Works Cited

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