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Green Apples

APPLE VARIETIES

Beacon

  • Developed by University of Minnesota in 1936

  • Its flesh is pulpy and fairly soft, with a mildy sweet flavor.

  • Early fall season apple.

B51
  • This new variety features half its parentage from the Honeycrisp
  • Just the right amount of sweetness
  • Excellent for eating
Chestnut Crab

  • Sweet, nutty flavor

  • Great lunchbox apple

  • Developed in 1946.

  • Great for fresh eating, cooking or making jellies.

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Cortland

  • One of the best kabob or salad apples because it doesn't brown quickly

  • Sweet, with a hint of tartness

Fireside

  • Developed in the early 1940's when the country listened to Roosevelts' "Fireside Chats"

  • Best for eating right off the tree or baking

  • Sweet taste and a crisp texture

First Kiss

  • Will be ready for picking in 2029.

Frostbite

  • It's almost tangy, very sweet, and juicy

  • Key apple in the U of M's breeding program since the 1920's

  • It is great for cider or people with a real sweet tooth.

Gala

  • Sweet, mild flavor

  • Originated in the 1930's

  • Cross between a Golden Delicious and a Kidd's Orange Red 

  • Favored for making pies, crisps, and tarts, as well as for use in salads and fruit platters

Honeycrisp

  • Minnesota State Apple

  • Sweet, firm, and tartness make it an ideal apple for eating.

  • Introduced in 1991

HoneyGold

  • Heirloom Apple.  Introduced in 1935.

  • Cross between Golden Delicious and Haralson apples

  • Great for fresh eating, salads, cooking, baking, cider, and preserving through canning, freezing, and drying. 

  • Crisp, juicy texture and a sweet, honey-like flavor

Keepsake

  • Best-known as one of the parents of the popular Honeycrisp

  • Best for fresh eating

  • The flavor is distinctive, strong, sweet, nutty, and aromatic.

  • Ripens mid-October

McIntosh

  • National apple of Canada

  • Tart apple

  • Suitable both for cooking and eating raw

Liberty

  • Excellent for cooking pies and sweet cider

  • Introduced in 1955.

  • Sweet, flavorful, crisp and juicy

Northwest Greening

  • Eat the apple off the tree or use it in pies

  • Crisp, sweet-tart, delicious flavor

Paula Red

  • A little sweet and a little tart.

  • Softer apple 

  • Good for a delicious, naturally pink applesauce and for pie making.

Prairie Spy

  • Heirloom apple developed in 1914.

  • Very sweet with the smallest amount of tartness and its very juicy with a honey flavor

  • one of the great cooking apples though it is admired for eating as well

  • Late season apple

Red Baron

  • Juicy and sweet-tart with pear flavors

  • Makes excellent apple pies

  • Developed at Univ of Minnesota in 1970.

Regent

  • Developed  in 1963 at the Univ of Minnesota

  • Outstanding balance of sweet and tart

  • Late season apple

Red Harolson

  • Tart, crisp, and juicy

  • Heirloom apple.  Introduced in 1922.

  • Cross between the Malinda and Wealthy apples

  • Excellent for pies, applesauce or eating off the tree.

Snow Sweet

  • Sweet and almost buttery

  • Excellent for fresh eating, snack trays, salads, sauces

  • Itroduced in 2006

Spartan

  • Good all-purpose apple

  • Balanced sweet succulent and tart flavour

  • Good variety for juicing 

SweeTango

  • Crisp and sweet

  • Lively touch of citrus, honey, and spice

  • Combines the best qualities of the Honeycrisp and Zestar

  • Introduced in 2009

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Wealthy

  • One of Minnesota's oldest apples.  In 1868, it was crossed between a Siberian Crabapple and a Cherry Crab.

  • Great for crumbles, crisps, pies, cakes, muffins, and bread, fried into fritters, or simmered into jams and jellies

  • Juicy, crisp, and has a sweet and tart flavor reminiscent of strawberry.

  • Peter Gideon sent the family's last dollars to an apple grower in Bangor, Maine, and got a bushel of apple seeds in return.  Gideon later named the Wealthy apple, after his wife, Wealthy Gideon.

Sweet 16

  • Very sweet, spicy flavor with hints of citrus and vanilla

  • Developed in 1973 

  • Cross between Northern Spy and Frostbite. 

  • A delight for snacking, fruit salads and no-sugar added applesauce.

Triumph

  • Wll be ready for picking in 2029.

Zestar

  • Large, crunchy, juicy red fruit with a sweet-tart flavor

  • Best for eating right off the tree or baking

  • Sweet taste and a crisp texture

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