Ariana News Agency-\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n An apple a day keeps the doctor away \u2014 but what if we\u2019ve all been eating apples the wrong way?<\/p>\n A new study from Graz University of Technology in Austria found that the core and seeds of an apple contain beneficial bacteria, meaning you might want to think twice before chucking an apple core in the trash can.<\/p>\n To conduct the study, researchers analyzed organic and store-bought apples for bacteria in all parts of the fruit \u2014 including the stem, core, seeds and peel.<\/p>\n The study found that organic and store-bought apples contain \u201ca similar quantity\u201d of bacteria, but discovered that the majority of an apple\u2019s bacteria exists in the seeds.<\/p>\n \u201cInterestingly, fruit pulp and seeds were bacterial hot spots, while the peel was less colonized,\u201d the study said.<\/p>\n Because the apple\u2019s seeds are housed in its core, skimping out on the core may mean that you lose out on beneficial bacteria \u2014 including Lactobacillus, a type of bacteria often found in probiotics.<\/p>\n \u201cConsuming the whole apple includes an approximate uptake of 100 million bacterial gene copy numbers,\u201d according to the study.<\/p>\n Though organic and store-bought apples contain roughly the same amount of bacteria, the study also found that organic apples have a \u201csignificantly more diverse, more even and distinct\u201d bacterial community, and have more \u201cfavorable health effects for the consumer, the host plant and the environment\u201d than store-bought apples.<\/p>\n Speaking about the study on Good Morning America, ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton said, \u201cWe don\u2019t know yet if more bacteria is better in terms of our gut health, but [this is] a very interesting study that I hope will lead to testing more foods and parts of the food that we can throw away sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The study found that eating the core and seeds of an apple could provide extra benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_mat_hreflang_tags":[],"addvideo":"","video_duration":"","farsit":"","target":"0","top_stories":"0","top":"0"},"categories":[307],"tags":[284],"class_list":["post-3754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-apple"],"acf":{"myctype":"change","target":false,"top_stories":false,"top":false,"farsit":""},"yoast_head":"\n