Varieties of Apples: Apple Characteristics and Ripening Date Summary Chart
Varieties of Apples: Apple Characteristics and Ripening Date Summary Chart
Varieties of Apples: Apple Characteristics and Ripening Date Summary Chart
applesauce,
apple butter,
and apple jelly!
apple pie filling
dried apples
apple juice
apple pie,
Apple crunch - best of all! Moist, low sugar and using oats!
Apple crisp - ever-popular, low sugar and using oats!
Apple, blackberry, cherry, and/or peach cobbler
Apple-blackberry, crumble - a English favorite (or favourite)
Also, see How to pick apples and for an excellent article about
apple cider from Mother Earth News, click here.
Arkansas Black
Baldwin
Blushing Golden
Cameo
A large, round sub-acid apple with red blush stripe over
yellow.
Late ripening
Cortland
Crispin/Mutsu *
Empire*
Fuji
Gala
Ginger Gold
Golden Delicious
Grimes Golden
Gravenstein
Hokuto
A Mutsu/Fuji cross
crisp texture of Fuji,
large size and shape of Mutsu,
sweet flavors
late mid-season
Honeycrisp
Introduced in Minnesota
Very sweet and aromatic
Great for juice, as it is a very juicy apple
Best for: Eating, pies, baking
Mid season
Jonathan
One of the first red apples of the fall
Sweet-tart taste with firm texture
Light red stripes over yellow or deep red
Best for: eating and cooking
Early season
Jonalicious
Flavor like Jonathan but a little less tart and darker red
skin.
Larger, crisper, and juicier than Jonathan, and a better
keeper.
Slightly sour/acid balance.
early midseason
Jonamac
Jonagold *
Liberty
A highly disease-resistant introduction from Geneva New
York.
Liberty has superior dessert quality, similar to one of its
parents, Macoun
Best for: eating, sauce, salad
flavor improves in storage
late season
Macoun
McIntosh *
Melrose
Northern Spy
Paula Red
Pink Lady
Rome
Spartan
Stayman or Stayman-Winesap
Juicy, cream-colored to yellowish flesh with a tart wine-like
flavor. (often also called winesap)
Good storing apple, bruise resistant, dull red coat.
Best for: Cooking, pies and cider
Suncrisp
Winesap
Rich red color with white flesh
Crisp texture and juicy
Best for cooking
Mid to late season
Yates
Rich red color with white flesh
Sweet
Best for eating
Late season
York