Honeycrisp, or Honey Crisp, is a modern apple variety, developed in the
1960s and introduced to the market in the 1990s - sometimes trademarked
as Honeycrunch. It is increasingly available in supermarkets. Honeycrisp
comes from a long line of apples developed by the University of
Minnesota from the 1930s onwards. One of the objectives of this breeding
programme has been to develop varieties which can tolerate the bitter
cold of winters in some parts of the USA, and most plantings have been
in the northern USA, including New England, Minnesota and Washington
State.
Honeycrisp is a medium-to-large sized apple, with a light green/yellow
background largely covered with red-orange flush with strong hint of
pink if grown in good sunlight. The skin may be flecked with occasional
russet dots. The flesh is white, perhaps not quite as bright as a
McIntosh style apple, but similarly crisp and not too dense. The colour
however can be quite variable. The flavour is sweet with very little
trace of acidity and little depth or complexity. There can also be a
trace of pear-drop flavour. In a good example this is a juicy and
instantly refreshing apple, in a less good example it will be simply
sweet and bland (but still very nice). As its name suggests this is
genuinely a crisp / crunchy apple.
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