Assorted Apples
Find your next favorite apple, learn what's inside it, and know exactly what to make with it.
Apple varieties, recipes and nutrition, all in one place
There are dozens of apples in the grocery store and they are not interchangeable. Some are built for snacking, some fall apart in the oven, and some only show up for a few weeks a year.
Assorted Apples breaks down the most popular varieties by flavor, texture and best use, then pairs them with recipes and plain-language nutrition guides, so you always know which apple to grab.
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America's favorite apples
Gala, Red Delicious, Honeycrisp, Granny Smith and Fuji are the five most grown apples in the United States. Here they are, plus three rising stars.
Gala
America's most grown apple.
Red Delicious
The classic red apple.
Honeycrisp
The apple that made crunch famous.
Granny Smith
The tart green baking standard.
Fuji
Dense, crunchy and very sweet.
Cosmic Crisp
Washington's long-keeping crunch.
Pink Lady
Tart, fizzy and pink.
Ambrosia
Honey-sweet with almost no tartness.
Find an apple by flavor
Tart
Bright and tangy, the classic choice for pies.
Extra crunchy
Loud, crisp bites that hold up for months.
Best for baking
Hold their shape and flavor in the oven.
When each apple is in season
Apples are harvested from late summer through fall, but some are stored and sold well into the next year. Here is roughly when to look for each one.
Late season
October to November
Fuji, Granny Smith, Pink Lady, Braeburn, Northern Spy, Arkansas Black
Winter and spring
Long keepers from storage
Cosmic Crisp, EverCrisp, Lady Alice, RubyFrost, Pazazz, SugarBee
What's inside an apple
A medium apple is mostly water, with a good dose of fiber. A large share of that fiber is pectin, a soluble fiber that also helps jams set. The skin holds much of the fiber and many of the plant compounds, so eating the peel counts.
About 95
calories
4.4 g
fiber
8 mg
vitamin C
86%
water
One medium apple, about 182 g, with skin. Source: USDA FoodData Central.