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Take a bite out of the Ambrosia apple. Its flavour is best described as refreshing with floral notes and a pleasant crisp, fine-grained flesh. It’s very sweet with very little acidity. Ambrosia is an apple that naturally doesn’t brown quickly after being sliced, making it perfect for snacks or salads.

Its firm flesh is pale yellow to gold and contains a few dark brown seeds in the centre of the fibrous core. Cripps Pink apples are very crisp and juicy with a sweet flavour combined with subtle hints of spice, pear, nutmeg, and cinnamon.

Cortland apples are medium-to-large in size, and often rather flat in shape. They are bright red and covered with dark red streaks; often they are capped with a green blush. Their crisp, finely-grained white flesh is exceptionally juicy with a sharp, sweet-tart, vinous flavour.

Crispin apples, also known as Mutsu, are large in size with a distinctive greenish-yellow skin that may develop a soft orange blush when ripe. A cross between Golden Delicious and Indo varieties, the Crispin has crisp, creamy-white flesh that is exceptionally juicy. Its flavour is well-balanced with a sweet, honey-like taste and a subtle tartness. Crispin apples are excellent for fresh eating, baking, and making applesauce.

Empire apples are red, juicy, firm, crunchy and sweet. They ripen during September and October, and will keep until January. The original seed was a cross between the varieties McIntosh and Red Delicious. Empire apples are excellent for eating and salads, and good for sauce, baking, pies and freezing.

Fuji apples are medium to large. The thick skin of the Fuji apple is light red with a yellow blush, and is oftentimes lined with red vertical stripes. The Fuji’s interior creamy white flesh is dense, juicy, and crisp. Low in acid, the flavour is mild yet very sweet with hints of both honey and citrus.

Gala apples are bi-coloured with an attractive orange-red blush, which is most commonly striped and exposes a white-yellow background colouration. The fruit has sweet, yellowish flesh and an attractive crisp texture. ‘Royal Gala’ is a Gala with more than 50% red colouration of the skin: they taste the same!

Golden Delicious is a large, yellowish-green skinned cultivar and very sweet to the taste. It is prone to bruising and shrivelling, so it needs careful handling and storage. It is a favourite for salads, apple sauce, and apple butter.

Granny Smith apples have a bright green skin that is often speckled with faint white lenticels (spots). Medium to large in size and round in shape, they are a firm and juicy apple with thick skin. Their flesh is bright white and crisp in texture with a tart, acidic, yet subtly sweet flavour. Granny Smith apples grown in colder climates will often take on a yellow to pink blush.

Honeycrisp is a medium-to-large sized apple, with a light green/yellow background largely covered with red-orange flush with strong hint of pink if grown in good sunlight. The skin may be flecked with occasional russet dots. As its name suggests this is genuinely a crisp / crunchy apple.

Idared is a type of apple cultivar from Moscow, Idaho, United States. First developed at the University of Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station in 1942; it is a cross between two apple varieties (Jonathan x Wagener). The Idared has a white flesh with a firm body, and is generally considered to be tart and juicy.

Large in size its flesh is crisp, juicy and creamy yellow in colour. The Jonagold apple has a balanced blend of both its parents’ flavours offering the sweet-tart taste found in the Jonathan and the aromatic honey like scent of the Golden Delicious.

The McIntosh apples crisp flesh is exceptionally juicy and bright white in colour. When first picked the flavour of the McIntosh apple has a strong sweet-tart taste with nuances of spice, this flavour will mellow slightly in cold storage.

The Northern Spy apple has a skin colour that is green ground and flushed with red stripes where not shaded. The tree produces fairly late in the season and stores very well. The white flesh is juicy, crisp and mildly sweet with a rich, aromatic subacid flavour, noted for high vitamin C content.

Meet the world’s favorite snacking apple. The heart-shaped Red Delicious features a bright red and sometimes striped skin. Renowned for its crunchy texture and mildly sweet flavour, this tasty apple shines in cool, crisp salads.