The World’s Largest Fruits

World’s Largest Apples

Japan’s Hokuto apples, a hybrid of the Fuji and Mutsu varieties, are known for their large average size so it’s not surprising that a representative of this variety dropped into the Guinness World Records for being the world’s heaviest apple. Discovered by apple farmer Chisato Iwasaki of Hirosaki City, Japan, on October 24th of 2005, the choice Hokuto apple above tipped the scales at 1,849 grams (about 4 lbs 1 oz).

World’s Largest Oranges

Orange you glad somebody’s trying to make oranges bigger? Sure you are, and that certain someone happens to be Huang Ah-Hsien of Taiwan’s Agricultural Research Institute. Huang’s not known as the “God of Citrus” for nothing: in his 20-year career at the Institute he’s created 170 new types of citrus fruits. He’s hit the motherlode, however, with the mother of all oranges – the King Orange that’s as big as your face and weighs about a pound & a third (0.6 kg) each.

World’s Largest Bananas

Whose the real Top Banana? Meet the Rhino Horn Plantain, a hybrid banana cultivar originating in Africa that bears fruit up to 2 feet (60cm) long – though average specimens range from 12 to 14 inches (about 32cm).

World’s Largest Grapes

A number of different grapes have laid claim to being the world’s largest at one time or another but only Japan’s Ruby Roman grapes are both huge in size as well as in price. In 2009, a Japanese hotel manager paid a whopping $910 for a 1.5 pound (700g) bunch of tomato-red Ruby Romans. That works out to around $26 per grape… they’d BETTER be big!

When it comes to Muscadine Grapes, one’s as good as a bunch. These thick-skinned grapes are native to the southeastern USA and over 300 cultivars have been bred – some as large as plums! 

World’s Largest Strawberries

Strawberries are as unpredictable as it comes, when it comes to size. Sure, some cultivars tend to bear larger fruit than what buyers might expect but even the average berry patch can suddenly deliver a monster strawberry that looks as if it performed some sort of organic, botanic Vulcan mind meld with 1, 2 or 3 of its neighbors.

World’s Heaviest Jackfruit

The sweet tasting fruit weighed 34.6kg (76lb 4.4oz), measured 57.46 cm (22.625in) long and had a circumference of 121.28 cm on 8 August 2003. It was grown by George and Margaret Schattauer of Captai Cook, Hawaii, USA. Native to Western India, the fruit spread throughout South East Asia and first came to Hawaii in 1888.