Tag: apple reports

They’re doing APPLEANCH at Sprouts and I got a couple of ones I haven’t tried before. Also got a couple of ones that don’t stick around long, but I remember liking. Sugarbee is one of those.

I got both Lucy Rose and Lucy Glo apples. I tried one of the Lucy Rose apples today. The skin has these bright sparkly looking spots all over it. I didn’t know it was going to be red inside, so that was a surprise. It tastes kind of like a Pink Lady apple but is more tart and more sweet. The sweetness had a sort of berry flavor but also had a vague nutri-sweet sort of tinge to it.

Got apples today and this thing was there. The tart vs sweet scale is totally wrong except for the granny smith apple. For instance, an opal apple is like 3x as sweet as a fuji. I’ve tried a pacific rose apple and I can’t precisely remember the flavor but it was nowhere near as tart as a granny smith. Good to see a list of some of the cultivars though. I haven’t tried some of these.

The opal apples were back in stock again and looked like a lot of them sold already. There was also a huge stock of fresh firm honeycrisps. I ended up getting opals, honeycrisps, a couple raves, and some pink ladys.

I got some good looking fujis last time and they were awful. They tasted like dirty water. Every time I’ve ever gotten a fuji apple that had an overall brown hue, it has been like that. But I just looked it up and supposedly fujis first ripen in October, so it’s about time they should start tasting good again.

So I got these recently. Super expensive at $2.99/lb but I had to try em because I’ve never seen them before. They’re big smooth shiny apples with a “profondo rosso” color. I read about them and supposedly the grower nerds have been trying to crossbreed the right types of apples to make this fucking thing right since the 70s.

It’s a softer apple which I dislike, but the juiciness and flavor pretty much make up for it. It’s a really satisfying sweet/sour balanced flavor. The description on the website (all these fancy cultivars have their own websites) describes the flavor as something like a cross between honeycrisp and granny smith (the actual crossbred apples are honeycrisp and MonArk). I would say it’s a little better than that. It seemed to me like the sweetness was stronger than a honeycrisp, and also overpowers the tartness of the whole thing.