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Apples and oranges are completely different kinds of fruit. However, I'm going to compare them with some of their factors. In fact, some similarities can be found between them. Through this comparison, I wish I compare them properly, and get more knowledge about these fruits.

First of all, apples are more nutritious than oranges. According to the charts that compares nutrients in apples and oranges, apples contain more amounts for most nutrients they have commonly and they contain more kinds of nutrients. Proximates, minerals, vitamins, lipids and amino acids are contained more in apples than in oranges. There is even a saying, ‘An apple a day will keep the doctor away.' Even though this is exaggerated, people day this because at least apples are healthy enough for people.

In addition, apples have more types than oranges. There are more than 7,000 different kinds of apples in the world. We can sort out apples by sizes, colors, tastes and shapes; some are round and some look like hearts, some are sweet and some are tart, they taste different because they have different amounts of sugar, the flesh can be hard or soft, and the skin can be thick or thin. Comparing with this, there are only about 600 different kinds of oranges in the world. There are fewer aspects to sort out oranges than apples; sizes, colors and tastes and also they don't have many types in their each aspect.

In the contrary, Oranges are more useful than apples. We can use both apples and oranges in our life. We can eat fresh apples for sure, we can make apple juice for dessert in the morning or we also can use small pieces of apple for cooking or salad. We can eat fresh oranges, make orange juice, or use oranges in salads, or to decorate cakes. These uses so far seem very similar to each other; however there are more uses of oranges. We not only use oranges for eating, we can use them as pocket heater, simple skin lotion, perfume and mosquito repellant. There might even be more uses of oranges in our life, while apples don't do as much functions as oranges do.

As a result, I assure that apples are better than oranges in the factors of nutrition and types, although oranges have more uses. I learned many new things about apples and oranges from comparing them and they are both very useful and healthy. In spite of which fruit is better, the important thing is that people need to have some knowledge about fruits, and use them effectively.