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Wonder of the Day #2160

Are All Strawberries Red?

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Have You Ever Wondered...

Are all strawberries red? Where are white strawberries grown? What makes some strawberries white?

et's play a quick game of answer as fast as you can. What do you L sleep

in? A bed! If you're not

alive, you're what? Dead! What color is a

strawberry

? Red!

That last question was actually a aren't all strawberries red? Nope! Some strawberries are white. trick

question. If you answered red, you're like most people. But

And, no, we're not talking about the

unripe

strawberries that change from small green berries to

larger white berries that

eventually

turn red when they're

ripe

. There are actually several

varieties

of white strawberries that ripen and never turn red.