Apple varieties: The most important at a glance

Overview of popular apple varieties

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The Boskop (also called Boskoop or beautiful from Boskoop) originally comes from the Netherlands. The apple variety tastes sour and works well with applesauce or cider.

Cox orange

The Cox Orange is one of the winter apples and was discovered in England. He owns one two-colored shell and a firm pulp, Due to its aromatic taste, it is versatile in the kitchen, for example for apple pie or apple pie. From him comes from the apple variety Holsteiner Cox.

Elstar

The apple variety Elstar is characterized by its juicy pulp and a slightly sour taste. He is versatile and can be used as a dessert apple as well as a cooking or baking apple. Elstar is one of the most popular cultivar in Germany? we'll show you how to plant the apple tree.

Golden delicious

The Golden Delicious is easily recognizable by its yellow-green skin. He becomes mainly eaten purebecause the pulp does not break up so well during cooking, but it can also be used for applesauce or apple pancakes.

Granny Smith

The apple variety Granny Smith has a green shell that is slightly speckled. It tastes very sour and is good for cooking and baking. The variety was discovered in Australia and only grows in countries with a hot climate, in Germany it can not be grown.

Jonagold

Jonagold is one of the world's most widely grown apple varieties. The fruits are enjoyable from October and taste juicy-sweet. That's why you can make apple juice yourself with Jonagold.

Pink Lady

Pink Lady is the brand name for the fruits of the apple variety Cripps Pink. You have a firm and rather sweet pulp and a reddish peel that also contains yellow-green tones. The apple variety is cultivated mainly in Chile, South Africa and Australia, but also in European countries such as France and Spain.

Royal Gala

As Royal Gala becomes one Mutant of the apple variety Gala designated. The apples are characterized by their red skin and sweet taste. You can use them for apple compote or apple strudel, for example.

Apple varieties and their maturity classes

With the different apple varieties one separates between Summer, autumn and winter apples, Not all fruits can be consumed immediately after harvesting, some develop their taste later, so a distinction is made between the ripe for picking and the ripe for consumption.

The summer apples include those varieties that between July and September ripe, for example, the Gravensteiner apple variety. Since many of them are quickly overripe, they can not be stored for too long.

On the other hand, autumn apples are picking in September and October and can be consumed after a short storage, such as the Holsteiner Cox.

Winter apples are all apple varieties that are harvested in October or November and only after a storage period of two months, enjoyable are. One of them is, for example, the White Winter Calvill. However, since apples are available in the trade throughout the year (eg through imports from New Zealand), the division into maturity classes hardly plays a role today.

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