Red Delicious
Malus domestica 'Red Delicious' · Pome fruit
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Red Delicious is the iconic deep dark-crimson, elongated apple with five pronounced lobes and a knobbed base, a thick glossy skin, and mild, very sweet flesh that softens easily. Long the most-produced apple in the United States, it has become a symbol of the supermarket apple even as crisper modern varieties steadily overtake it.
Picking a good onedrag
UnderripeOverripe
Just ripeBuy itCrisp and balanced — eat it, or bake it
SkinFull colour, faint wax
FleshFirm, no give
StemGreen, attached
SmellFaintly sweet at the stem
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What you get from one
90%
Edible part
182 g · core out
202 g
Weight each
each one
60%
Juice
600 ml a kilo
Keeping ittap a temperature
A domestic fridge holds it about 17× longer than the counter.
90–95%
Humidity
Gentle
Airflow