FUKUOKA, JAPAN - After 32 years, the U.K. has been unseated as having grown the world’s heaviest strawberry.
According to the Telegraph, Koji Nakao from Fukuoka, Japan, reached out to the Guinness Book of World Records after happening upon a massive strawberry while harvesting.
The Japanese farmer’s lucky find is a strawberry roughly the size of an apple:
- Weighing 250 grams
- 8 cm tall (about 3 inches)
- 12 cm long (almost 5 inches)
- 25 to 30 cm in circumference (9 to 11 inches)
This record-setter is reportedly a tasty mutant, having fused together from surrounding berries of the Japanese Amaou strawberry variety. Its predecessor, according to the Telegraph, was grown in Kent in the U.K. in 1983 by G. Anderson.
And what became of this sweet berry giant? It was enjoyed by Nakao’s daughter who told reporters that it was “delicious," as seen in the video above.
