# Apples Have Never Tasted So Delicious. Here’s Why | Scientific American

<https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/apples-have-never-tasted-so-delicious-heres-why/>

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## What Jamie wrote

My favorite apple is without question the [Honeycrisp](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeycrisp), developed right here in the Great State of Minnesota by the way!

> Apple experts divide time into "before Honeycrisp" and "after Honeycrisp," and apples have never tasted so good

Ha! No more settling for apples that are Red, Yellow, and Green. C'mon! 

> Honeycrisp has a "disruptive trait," says Chris Gottschalk, a geneticist who works at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's research station in Kearneysville, W.V. (his favorite apples: Honeycrisp and Golden Russet). Honeycrisp's texture--the crispness--had never been combined with a high-acidity, high-sugar apple, he says. "That really struck North American consumers specifically well," Gottschalk says. As its popularity grew, it went from being largely a "u-pick" fruit to becoming regionally available in groceries, and now it is the third most produced apple in the U.S.

I read this article with some pride knowing the role the University of Minnesota played in the Honeycrisp apple, but also learning a ton about all the so many varieties of apples there are.

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