Germans consumed 105 kilos of fruit per person last year (including fruit in processed products), reports the German website Fruchtportal.de.
The apple is still the favourite fruit, with an annual consumption of 25.9 kilos per person, followed by the banana with an annual consumption of 10.5 kilos per person. People ate 36.7 kilos per person of the various types of citrus.
In total the German people consumed 8,668,000 tonnes of fruit in the 2011/12 financial year. Less than a fifth of this fruit was grown abroad. Due to the climate circumstances many varieties can't be grown in Germany - these 'exotics' are imported. The domestic fruit harvest for apples, pears, cherries, plums, yellow plums, strawberries and berries for the 2012 market was 1,255,815 tonnes in total.
