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Old 01-21-2009 | 08:41 PM
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Default RE: Feeding Apples To Deer

ORIGINAL: uncle matt

Well I don't know about the fat content of apples doing anything for the flavor as you would be hard pressed to find afruit lower in fat. Apples have an extremely low fat content. But I do agree apples somehow bring a nice flavor to the meat. I believe it is from the many vitamins and minerals that apples hold - especially the skin.

When I was youngermy family owned someapple andpear orchards in Southern Illinois that we hunted.Needless to say the deer were plentiful (and tasty).
Fruit doesnt have any fat content. Its fruit. Obviously you can get fat from eating a bunch of fruit. But you'd have to eat so much that your teeth would fall out before you could actually gain anything. And even then you'd be gaining weight from the intake of carbohydrates in a simple sugar known as fructose. An overindulgence in any of the three calorie bases will end with weight gain. Even an overabundance of protein will go unused by the body and be stored as fat. The nutrition facts can be misleading because people think things with no fat content (pop, koolaid, etc) wont make them fat. Obviously its not always just the fat calories that get you. Anyways, thats neither here nor there, just wanted to clear that up.
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