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How they are grown has nothing to do with what varieties are grown and sold. Apples are in fact a great example of fruit that has hundreds of centuries-old vari
by subpixel 3y ago
How they are grown has nothing to do with what varieties are grown and sold. Apples are in fact a great example of fruit that has hundreds of centuries-old varieties that are no longer traded commercially bc of homogenization of consumer taste.
- Quarrel 3y agoIt is a little more complicated for apples because apple seeds do not breed true. You get random crabapples on average, if you plant apple seeds, so all commercial apples are grafted. At least apples aren't in the same deadend that bananas are in.. ie, most of the time they won't be sweet eating apples- in the US in particular this used to be less of a problem, because apples were for cider / alcohol. During prohibition entrepreneurs got active in trying to save their industry (while others were just ploughing orchards over) and we get modern ideas like "an apple a day" and the whole modern sweet eating apple became very mainstream. Not that eating apples weren't a thing before that, but it helped explode their popularity in modern western eating habits.