This Louisiana couple grew a 7 pound, 14.64 ounce grapefruit
Mary Beth and Doug Meyer grew a monster fruit weighing more than 7 pounds 14 ounces and measuring 28.75 inches around.Guinness World Records said the super citrus broke two records and is the world's heaviest and largest grapefruit by circumference.Louisiana state officials weighed and measured the grapefruit when it was picked in January.The squat, pumpkin-shaped fruit is about the size of a regulation basketball and weighs as much as a baby or a chihuahua.
"It's been an adventure for our family to discover this grapefruit and watch it grow and to measure every couple of weeks and thinking that we were going to achieve a possible world record," Doug Meyer said in a video posted on the Department's Facebook page.The Meyers' grapefruit beat the previous record that was set in 2006 in Brazil. That grapefruit weighed 7 pounds, 1 ounce and was 27.5 inches in circumference.
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