Taste Ratings of New Apple Cultivars
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https://doi.org/10.71318/apom.1991.45.1.37Abstract
Panels of volunteers tasted apple cultivars on 16 dates in 1988, 1989, and 1990. Fruit were from trees on either M.26 or M.7 rootstocks planted in 1985-1987 and trained to the central axis method in a research plot at Corvallis, Oregon. Three or four samples of 10 fruit per cultivar were harvested at weekly intervals and kept in cold storage at about 1°C until two days before tastings. Only fruit from the best-tasting samples were rated. Mean taste ratings for 'Fuji; 'Braeburn,' 'Melrose,' 'Elstar, 'Gala,' 'Liberty,' 'Spartan,' 'Empire,' and some others were significantly higher than for 'Delicious' on most dates. Ratings for 'Jonagold,' 'Brock,' 'Mutsu,' 'Golden Supreme,' 'Elstar, and some others were only occasionally higher than ratings for 'Golden Delicious'.
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