IN PICS | A 289 Gram Strawberry — Fruit That Just Made It To Guinness World Records

Israeli farmer Tzachi Ariel displays a 289 grams strawberry (R) that was found in his agricultural field and set a new Guinness World Records for the heaviest strawberry, in the Kadima village in central Israel on February 17, 2022 | Photo: AFP

The 289 gram strawberry found in Israeli farmer Tzachi Ariel's field set a new Guinness World Record for the heaviest strawberry, in the Kadima village in central Israel | Photo: AFP

At 289 grams, the fruit is about five times the weight of an average strawberry of the local Ilan variety | Photo: AFP

The Guinness Book of World Records website said it was an unusually cold weather in early 2021 that slowed the ripening process of the strawberry, allowing it to continue gaining weight | Photo: AFP

Tzahi Ariel had been hoping it was a record of sorts when he saw how big the fruit were growing on their family farm last year | Photo: AFP 

Workers pick strawberries in a field where the fruit weighting 289 grams was found, in the Kadima village in central Israel | Photo: AFP