I agree with Lucky, that a lot of RD apples I have bought in chain grocery
stores are less than appealing to my taste. Since medical school, I have
been eating any apple I could obtain every day, not necessarily for the
taste or texture, but for nutritional reasons. I consider them part of my
normal grocery staples.
Recently, I obtained about one ten pound bag biweekly of Washington Extra
Fancy Premium Red Delicious Apples from Sam's Club. The bag is labeled that
they are a minimum of 3" in diameter and they are distributed by Domex,
Yakima, WA 98908. It also states that they are coated with a vegetable
shellac/wax to preserve freshness. These apples are crisp and sweet tasting.
The only complaint I have about them is that they are too large to eat for
me to eat at one meal. There are no labels on individual apples which
describe whether they genetically modified, etc. I suppose that such
labeling isn't required for apples which aren't sold to the general public.
I have noticed that before I finish eating all the apples of an individual
bag that they begin to turn mealy and develop dry spots but they are edible.
Sam mentioned the "knobs" found on the blossom ends of RD,s. I have heard
them referred to as "sugar lumps" or something like that. Probably so named
by an enterprising marketeer.
Doc
[NAFEX] Re: Red Delicious,
Doc Lisenby, 03/28/2005