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I wonder how this will affect taste. Apples bred to look picture perfect often/usually/always? have terrible tastes in my experience.

• ivl 9y ago
  I don't think this is meant to affect how apples look initially, only once they've been bitten into/cut so that the white part is open to the air. Lemon juice used to be the trick, but if this does the trick then cool.
  • jimktrains2 9y ago
    > I don't think this is meant to affect how apples look initially, only once they've been bitten into/cut so that the white part is open to the air. I know, my point was that so far my experience with apples made to be better commercially fail when it comes to taste. I wonder if this will be different.
• maxerickson 9y ago
  Apples are more discovered than bred. They don't breed true, so 2 delicious apples that are crossed will produce an assortment of characteristics. A lot of the commercial varieties have lineages that are high in sugar.
  • sampo 9y ago
    > Apples are more discovered than bred. Here is a nice 2013 article about a man who hunts old and abandoned orchards for old heirloom apple varieties. It also explains about the genetics of apples. If you like the apples made by a particular tree, and you want to make more trees just like it, you have to clone it: Snip off a shoot from the original tree, graft it onto a living rootstock, and let it grow. This is how apple varieties come into existence. Every McIntosh is a graft of the original tree that John McIntosh discovered on his Ontario farm in 1811, or a graft of a graft. Every Granny Smith stems from the chance seedling spotted by Maria Ann Smith in her Australian compost pile in the mid-1800s. http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/04/heritage-apples-john-bunker-maine/ http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/04/heritage-appl...