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[Claude Jolicoeur <cjoli@gmc.ulaval.ca>]

Actually, what is said there about tropical fruit 
would also hold true for apples. The fruit of the 
wild apple trees in Kazakhstan don't have much to 
envy as far as sugar is concerned to the grocery 
store fruit. The only thing is in the wild there 
is a lot more variability in size, bitterness, astringency, sugar, and so on.

And in fact, it has been shown that selection of 
apple trees on sugar content and flavor dates 
from way before manking as bears and other large 
mammals have been doing it by eating the best 
tasting fruits and dissiminating their seeds...

Claude Jolicoeur

Author, The New Cider Maker's Handbook
http://www.cjoliprsf.ca/
http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/the_new_cider_makers_handbook/


Le 07:05 2015.03.15, vous avez écrit:
>  See
>  <http://rawfoodsos.com/2011/05/31/wild-and-ancient-fruit>
>
>  Doug Woodard
>  St. Catharines, Ontario