Israeli strawberry clocks in as world’s heaviest on record

Israeli farmer Chahi Ariel holds a strawberry weighing a whopping 289 grams in Kadima-Zoran, Israel, (Ariel Schalit/AP)

After a year-long jam, a mammoth Israeli strawberry is entering the record books.

Weighing a whopping 289 grams, the titanic berry this week was declared the world’s largest by Guinness World Records.