Some apples are better for certain jobs in cooking. Use the table below to decide whether your apples are suited to baking, using for sauce, and much more. In most cases though, we think our apple sweetness chart is useful for the home cook and hope that it will help you too. Apples come in a diverse range of colors, flavors, and textures so we recommend testing them all out in your cooking to decide what works best.
Combinations of two varieties can also work well, especially pairing up a sweet and tart apple. Below is a summary chart of all the apples ranked by sweetness.
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We Ranked Them. Granny Smith The Granny Smith looks impressive with its perfectly smooth, shiny green skin and white flesh. Season: Mid-Late October Pacific Rose or Sciros The Pacific Rose gets its name from its rosy, pink complexion, and the fact that it was developed in New Zealand, a country surrounded by the Pacific Ocean. Season: Nov-Apr Season: September Braeburn The Braeburn apple is a sweet and juicy cultivar that has a unique flavor made up of pear, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
Season: Early-Mid October Idared The Idared apple is a lovely combination of tart and sweetness in one bite. Season: October 9. Jazz The Jazz apple is revered for its dense, crispy texture and sweet-tart flavor which has hints of pear.
Season: Early-Mid October 8. Macoun The Macoun is an aromatic type of apple with plenty of sweetness. Season: Mid-Late October 7. Opal The Opal apple has a unique yellow skin that makes them easily identifiable at an orchard or on the shelf in-store. Season: Mid-Late October 6. Honeycrisp Who can say no to fruit with a name like Honeycrisp? Season: September 5. Red Delicious In the United States and most of the world the Red Delicious is a hugely popular apple variety, easily identified by its heart shape and deep red skin.
Season: Mid-Late September 4. Ambrosia Ambrosia apples have a conical shape with glossy skin that is a combination of golden yellow and reddish pink color. Season: Mid-Late September 3. Golden Delicious No relative of the red delicious, the Golden Delicious is a versatile fruit that is crisp, sweet, and mellow tasting with a subtle honey undertone.
Season: Mid-Late September 2. Gala Gala apples carry a pleasant floral aroma and have delicious sweet, crispy flesh. Season: Mid August to early September 1. Fuji Fuji apples are one of the sweetest apples you will have the pleasure of eating.
Season: Mid to late October Best uses for each apple type Some apples are better for certain jobs in cooking. Top 10 Substitutes For Angostura Bitters. Cuisinevault is your online cooking companion offering loads of recipes, tips, hacks and much more. Stick with us to improve your game in the kitchen and gain knowledge not readily available on the other cooking sites.
Contact us: hello cuisinevault. Another heirloom variety, this apple has a firm texture that holds up well to being baked or cooked. It has a crisp sweetness and is definitely worth trying if you can find it at the store.
You might notice a little theme in this part of the list since the Snow apple is another heirloom variety. You might also see it called the Fameuse apple. They grow well in colder climates, which gives them their famous sweetness.
These apples are actually one of my favorites on the list. I love their softer texture and sweeter taste. The Cameo apple was discovered in Washington State and has a wonderfully crisp, fresh, and sweet flavor with just a touch of tartness.
The crisp texture holds up well to heat. The Ginger Gold apple likely descends from the Golden Delicious variety and makes a perfect apple for both raw and cooked dishes. It is slightly tart and mildly sweet and adds wonderful flavor to pies and cakes.
They are known as a dessert apple and have a wonderful sweetness balanced with a bit of tart flavor if allowed to fully ripen. You can enjoy them raw, cooked, or baked. This apple has a slightly thicker skin, which means it can be stored for longer periods of time than some other varieties. It grows well in cold climates, which can help make it taste even sweeter. The name of this apple is so beautiful and hints at the lovely red-pink color and a lovely crisp texture.
It has a balance of sweet, citrusy, and tart flavors that you can use either raw or cooked. It also lasts for a long time if stored in a cool place. This apple comes from a cross between a Honeycrisp and a Pink Lady and is the perfect blend of honey-sweetness and tart crispness. It is delicious fresh as a snack or in a salad, but can also be used in cooked recipes thanks to its firm texture and slight acidity. Ruby Darling, another adorable name that indicates a beautiful bright red apple that is packed with crisp sweet flavor.
It is a cross between a Honeycrisp and Gala with all the delicious attributes of both. While they may not be widely available just yet, if you can find them definitely give them a try.
Seriously, some names of these apples are just so wonderful and make you want to dive into a whole bag. The Cosmic Crisp is a bright red apple that is a great balance between sweetness and tartness.
Try pairing it with Red Delicious apples in your baking for a great flavor combo. As the name suggests, these apples are crisp and juicy with a texture that holds up well to baking and cooking. They have a lovely subtle sweetness and just a touch of tart flavor.
With a name like Pixie Crunch, you might rightly guess that these apples are smaller than some other varieties and have a delicious, firm, crunchy texture. This is an apple you will want to keep your eyes out for in the grocery stores starting in October of They are a large cross between Honeycrisp and Fuji with a delightfully subtle sweet flavor.
The Pacific Rose is a beautiful pink color and has a more tart than sweet flavor that makes it perfect for use in baking since it can balance out the sweetness in the recipes. It has a crunchy firm texture that holds up well to use in pies, cakes, muffins, and crisps. This heritage apple has a beautiful nutty aroma and a pear-like taste. It is one of the best tasting Russet apples and is delicious when pressed into juices and ciders.
This firm apple has a delightful spicy-sweet flavor and crisp texture. It is the parent to many of the varieties found on this list. These apples store well and are a wonderful choice for baking or cooking since they hold their shape well when heated. These apples break up and get juicy, but not mushy. The Idared apple is, you guessed it, bright red with a crisp texture and sweet-tart flavor that holds up well to being baked or cooked.
Their red skin makes a beautiful pink-colored apple sauce, and they can be enjoyed crisp and fresh in salads. These apples tend a bit more towards the tart than the sweet and have a juicy, crisp, and firm texture that makes them delicious both cooked and raw.
These apples are a cross between two of my favorite varieties the McIntosh and the Red Delicious. Try it raw in salads or in your favorite pie or crisp. The Modi apples are a tasty all-purpose apple that you can enjoy fresh as a snack or baked into cakes, muffins, and pies.
This apple variety was originally bred in France and has a lovely sweet-tart flavor. Even its name is a combination of sweetness and tangy tartness! Some apple-lovers consider SweeTango apples to be slightly sweeter than their popular parent Honeycrisp. While the SweeTango apple is terrifically sweet as the name implies , it is also high in acidity, which brings depth and complexity to its flavour.
Envy apples are a modern apple variety bred for the perfect balance of sweet flavour and refreshing tartness. Envy apples were bred by crossing the very-sweet Royal Gala apple with the spicy and refreshing Braeburn apple.
The result is indeed refreshingly sweet! Read all about Envy apples and their history. This particular apple was chosen for production due to its super-sweet flavour. Sweetie apples are subtly sweet and lovely to look at. Jazz apples are perhaps the most famous Royal Gala and Braeburn cross apple variety.
These are dynamic apples with a sweet, fruity flavour that can be reminiscent of pear or of honey. Similar to their sibling Envy apples, Jazz apples are excellent all-round apples and are just as good in cooked recipes as they are for fresh eating.
Kanzi apples are a sweet, European-bred apple bred from Gala and Braeburn. Similar to its sibling Jazz, the Kanzi apple is an attractive apple with a well-balanced sweet-tart taste. Dazzle Apples are large, shiny-red, very sweet and fruity fresh apples. A relatively new variety, Dazzle apples are the result of a specialty breeding program in New Zealand.
These apples have great genes and are worth seeking out! Golden Delicious apples are exceptionally sweet and sugary when allowed to ripen on the tree. These are among the sweetest yellow-green apples, as many other apples with green peels can be quite tart.
Like Gala, the Golden Delicious is often used as a parent variety in modern apple breeding. This is an apple to buy in-season, preferably from a local grower who has picked it at the peak of maturity. While the under-ripe green apples can be quite tart, a perfectly tree-ripened Golden Delicious is wonderfully sugary-sweet. Skip the shelf-ripened stored supermarket apples and take the time to find a true Golden Delicious.
The difference in taste is worth it! Fortunately, Golden Delicious apple trees are easy to plant, cold-tolerant, and self-pollinating perfect for small backyard orchards.
Read all about Golden Delicious apples. Jonagold apples were bred as a cross between the super-sweet Golden Delicious apple and the complex-tasting Jonathan heirloom apple. Jonagold apples are very sweet, but have that perfect balancing tartness of a great fresh apple. Sweetness increases with ripeness. Choose apples picked when ripe rather than those harvested underripe for transport and storage. Bred in Europe, this descendent of the Golden Delicious is an apple-lovers treat.
The latter two are incredible heirloom varieties from Europe. Pink Lady apples are a premium club apple variety with an attractive red-pink peel and well balanced sweet-tart taste. Crispin apples, also called Mutsu apples, were bred in Japan as a cross between the sweet Golden Delicious apple and the also-sweet but relatively unknown Indo apple variety.
Sun-ripened Mutsu apples tend to be the sweetest fruits within the variety. Opal apples sweet yellow apples with a bit of a crispy crunch. They are very sugary and have the added benefit of being slow to brown. The Opal is a descendent of Golden Delicious, and retains the best of its sweet flavour. SugarBee is a new apple variety with Honeycrisp parentage that has a delicate sweet flavour. The original tree was planted as a seed by a grower in Minnesota.
The result is truly delicious! Winter Banana is a unique specialty apple with a mild, sweet, almost banana-like flavour. It has a lovely perfumed scent, which can be similar to bananas when the apples are perfectly tree-ripened during a good growing year. Discovered by chance rather than bred for taste, this is an heirloom apple to enjoy straight from the orchard if you can find it! This apple is delicious in its own right, but is also known as a parent apple to many popular modern varieties.
Fameuse apples, also known as snow apples, are an heirloom specialty apple known for their incredible sweetness.
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