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FOOD FACTS: Apple - Humans have been eating apples since 6,500 BC. It takes the energy of 50 leaves collecting sunlight to make an apple! China produces as many apples as the US. Locally we are graced with the following varieties: East Lothian Pippin, White Melrose; Galloway Pippin (Wigtown), Bloody Ploughman (named after ploughman, shot by gamekeeper for stealing apples in the famous Cars of Gowrie, apple growing district), Lass-O-Gowrie, Lady of Wemyss, Cambusnethan Pippin, Hawthornden (Edinburgh). Buy: Sean Hignet near Brunstane: Old Apple Varieties (0131) 669 6430 - Lowe's Fruit Farm near Sheriff Hall Roundabout (0131) 663 2207 - Cox and Discovery Apple Juices: Plain, with elderflower, with rhubarb (at Haddington and Edinburgh Farmers Markets at present, email). Supplements: apple derived compounds, e.g. phloridzine (a liver support polyphenol, more powerful than milk thistle) and alpha amyrin, are being included in many of Biocare's supplement reformulations, because of their health benefits (e-mail for details). For a copy of the Edinburgh and Lothians Local Food Guide email Ursula or call Alison Schofield, the compiler, on (0131) 315 4195. Links: Nationally: Common Ground or email Scottish Apple Projects.