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  • From: Lee Reich <lreich@hvc.rr.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] peaches: color and acidity?
  • Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:17:11 -0400

In my experience, often when there is a colored and a paler form of a fruit, the colored form has the richer flavor, the paler form the sweeter flavor. I find this to be true in peaches, sweet corn, and others.

Lee Reich, PhD

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On Aug 27, 2010, at 1:40 PM, Cabe, Paul wrote:

It's peach season in Virginia, and I've been eating a lot of them lately, both white and yellow fleshed varieties.
All of the white varieties I know about tend to be low acid (and thus seem very sweet), and can often be very fragrant.
Yellow peaches tend to be more acidic, and are probably my favorite when fully ripe due the richer flavors (lots of acid and sugar).

But, my genetics background leads me to believe that there is not necessarily any correlation between peach flesh color and level of acidity.

So, has it just been standard practice to breed and promote white fleshed varieties that are low-acid?
Does anyone have any light to shed on this?

thanks,
Paul
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