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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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Most popular apples on Pomiferous over 7 day

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 ...

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 ...

Cox’s Orange Pippin

Cox’s Orange Pippin

2

Type: Dessert

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

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.

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 ...

Cortland

Cortland

2

Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Pie

summary: Excellent supermarket variety dessert apple similar to the McIntosh. Flavours are fresh and clean when the apple ripens fully on the tree. Favoured for fresh ...

Ashmead’s Kernel

Ashmead’s Kernel

2

Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Jelly, Pie, Sauce

summary: A sweet-tart, refreshing apple that also makes excellent apple sauce and provides tartness and sugars for cider blends.

Calville Blanc d’Hiver

Calville Blanc d’Hiver

1

Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Juice, Pie, Sauce

summary: This is the quintessential ingredient for French apple tarts. Aside from its wonderful flavour and sharpness, it holds its shape well when baked. It is also ...

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. ...

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.

Granny Smith

Granny Smith

2

Type: Cooking, Eating, Pie

characteristics: The flesh is greenish white, firm and coarse-grained. The apple is crisp sweet-sharp and refreshing.

Golden Russet, American

Golden Russet, American

1

Type: Culinary, Cider, Dessert, Jelly, Juice, Pie, Sauce

summary: While it is widely used as a fresh-eating apple, it also makes wonderful dried apple rings and a good choice for the flavour component and enhanced fermentation ...

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