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Information on over 7,000 apples is available here, all carefully researched and provided in a way that is easy to navigate.

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Golden Delicious

Golden Delicious

2

Type: Cider, Dessert, Sauce

summary: A very sweet and somewhat spicy apple found growing wild in the northern panhandle of West Virginia, U.S.A., in the early 1900s. Now one of the best known and ...

Belle de Boskoop

Belle de Boskoop

2

Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Pie, Sauce

summary: A favoured cooking apple, holding its shape and texture well for pies, crumbles and crisps. In most areas where this variety is grown, it is encountered as a ...

Jonagold

Jonagold

2

Type: Cider, Dessert, Pie

characteristics: The flesh is creamy yellow, medium-grained, crisp and crunchy. Juicy with a tart-sweet, honeyed taste. The flesh turns brown as it oxidizes, albeit slowly.

Lobo

Lobo

1

Type: Dessert, Pie, Sauce

characteristics: Flesh is very white, often with faint red stain under the skin. Somewhat crisp, tender and with a fine grained. Juicy and sweet with a hint of strawberry. Tends ...

Elstar

Elstar

2

Type: Dessert, Eating, Pie, Sauce

characteristics: Flesh is creamy white, somewhat crisp and very juicy. Sweet with well balanced acidity, though the tartness almost disappears with a couple of weeks of storage. ...

Karmijn de Sonnaville

Karmijn de Sonnaville

1

Type: Cider, Dessert, Juice, Pie, Sauce

characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, coarse-grained, firm and juicy. Rich and aromatic with intense nutty and honeyed flavours. High in sugar and acidity. Sometimes on the ...

Ambrosia

Ambrosia

1

Type: Dessert, Eating

summary: A sweet, juicy and flavourful eating apple, the Ambrosia stems from a chance seedling found in British Columbia's orchard country.

James Grieve

James Grieve

1

Type: Cider, Eating, Juice

characteristics: The flesh is creamy-white, fine-grained and soft when ripe, much like that of a firm Anjou pear. It tends to be on the sharp side, but it will sweeten and ...

Empire

Empire

2

Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Pie, Sauce

characteristics: Bright white flesh. Crisp and fragrant with hints of melon, pineapple and sometimes elderflower, sweet with a distinct tang.

Northern Spy

Northern Spy

2

Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Pie, Sauce

characteristics: The flesh is white, fine-grained, firm and crisp. Juicy and moderately sweet. Flavour is quite sweet-tart. Browns slowly when the flesh is exposed to air.

Stark Delicious

Stark Delicious

1

Type: Dessert

characteristics: Flesh is cream coloured, coarse in texture, crisp and firm. Juicy and very sweet with a flavour reminiscent of a very ripe melon.

Cox’s Orange Pippin

Cox’s Orange Pippin

2

Type: Dessert

summary: Best eaten fresh. Considered one of the finest dessert apples.

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