UMass students feast on 15,000-pound, world record fruit salad
AMHERST, Massachusetts In what's become an annual tradition, the University of Massachusetts celebrated the start of the new academic year with a delicious, healthy and world-record breaking dish.
About 500 students and staff at the Amherst campus on Monday sliced, diced, pitted and peeled 150 varieties of fruit to create a salad weighing more than 15,000 pounds.
The salad was mixed in a 15-foot diameter swimming pool.
It included 20 varieties of apples weighing more than 3,600 pounds; 19 varieties of melon weighing more than 2,500 pounds; peaches, bananas, oranges and berries as well as more exotic fruits including quince, passion fruit and rambutan.
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A Guinness Books of World Records representative certified the record.
UMass in recent years has started the semester with record-breaking seafood stews and stir fries.
