Basketball-sized world-record grapefruit grown in Louisiana
August 28, 2019
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A basketball-sized grapefruit has brought two world records to a Louisiana couple.
The giant citrus grew in the yard of Mary Beth and Doug Meyer of Slidell.
The Guinness Book of World Records says it's the world's heaviest and largest in circumference.
It weighed 7 pounds, 14.6 ounces (3.6 kilograms) and measured 28¾ inches (73 centimeters) around. That's almost as big around as an NBA basketball.
The grapefruit was 13.6 ounces (385.6 grams) heavier and 1¼ inches (3.2 centimeters) bigger around than the 2006 record, set in Brazil.
State Agriculture and Forestry Commissi...
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