Top 10 Apple Varieties

 

Top 10 highest ranked varieties

• D'Arcy Spice (5.00)  - votes: 5
• Silken (5.00)  - votes: 5
• Irish Peach (4.86)  - votes: 7
• Lobo (4.86)  - votes: 7
• Grimes Golden (4.83)  - votes: 6
• Shizuka (4.83)  - votes: 6
• Tydeman's Early Worcester (4.83)  - votes: 6
• Weirouge (4.83)  - votes: 6
• Zuccalmaglio's Reinette (4.83)  - votes: 6
• Opal® (4.80)  - votes: 10

   

Top 10 Most Popular Varieties:

1. Pink Lady® apple

   
   One of the best-known modern apples, Pink Lady is actually a trademark and the variety is more correctly known as Cripps Pink.

2. Honeycrisp apple

   
   Sometimes marketed as Honey Crisp or Honeycrunch, this is a crisp, and predominantly sweet, modern variety from the USA. It was developed by the University of Minnesota specifically for growers in cold climates, and is one of the most cold-hardy of apple varieties.

3. Fuji apple

   
   Developed in Japan, but an all-American cross of Red Delicious and Ralls Janet. A very attractive modern apple, crisp, sweet-flavoured, and keeps well.

4. Red Delicious apple

   
   One of the most famous American apple varieties, a sport of Delicious, known for its bright red color.

5. Gala apple

   
   One of the most widely-grown apple varieties, with a sweet pleasant flavour, and good keeping qualities.

6. Cox's Orange Pippin apple

   
   This is the benchmark for flavor in apples - from a good tree in a good year it can achieve exceptional flavor.

7. Golden Delicious apple

   
   Undoubtedly one of the most important apple varieties of the 20th century, both as a commercial variety in its own right, and as breeding stock for many other varieties. Very good flavor when home-grown.

8. Jonagold apple

   
   A very popular commercial variety, with a good flavour. Inherits many of the good qualities of its parents Jonathan and Golden Delicious.

9. Granny Smith apple

   
   The most instantly-recognised of all apples, and perhaps Australia's most famous export.

10. McIntosh apple

    
    A crisp red apple with bright white flesh and refreshing sweet flavor.