This might also help people find better versions of fruits they may not otherwise enjoy
I suppose I am a basic removed - Honeycrisp apples, Mission figs (fresh), haas avocados and the wee golden Champagne mangoes are the best IMO.
Oranges, though? Valencia or tangelos are flavorful, the navel oranges are bland nonsense.
Pink Lady apples. Perfect balance of sweet and tart for me.
Came here to say this! Beautifully crisp too. I hate most red apples for how soft they can be and how grainy they can feel sometimes. Maybe I’ve had ones at the wrong side of ripe, but pink ladies are the perfect hybrid of green and red. I used to love Macintoshes for this but pink ladies are much better
Oh man yeah, didn’t even think about the texture. Gonna go get one at lunch time now.
Oh yeah, although the kanzi apples can be better sometimes.
Never heard of those. “a cross between a Gala and a Braeburn” sounds fantastic. Just got to find one now.
Fuji apples when I make apple cobbler.
For just sitting there eating peanut butter on an apple, a honeycrisp. I used to go for Galas because they were cheap, but lately I decided $1 more per pound of apples is better than occasionally eating a dozen donuts when I want something sweet. Overall, just better to spend more money on healthier food than to absolutely optimize my grocery budget then binge on junk food when the optimization freaks me out.
A few years ago, I was in Asia for the first time. On a ship in Malaysia, to be specific. I was chitchatting with a Malaysian coworker before our shift started, and on our way out I grabbed a nice looking fruit on my way out of the galley. I took a bite, and it was like nothing I’d ever tasted before, so of course I had to ask what kind of fruit it was.
“Uh… a pear?” My coworker replied, surprised that I had to ask. To me pears are green, and has a completely different texture. I never knew yellow ones existed until then.
Arent most pears yellow when they are ripe?
I’m from Indonesia and it’s common to see distinctively different kind of pears. There are pears that are significantly yellow even when ripe, they are also more round-shaped than the usual pear-shaped pear.
Sometimes they can be more crunchy like apple.
Tbh I don’t know the exact name, I just called them “yellow pear.”
It could have been a Williams pear. They ripen from green to yellow. Some even have a pinky peach blush. They’re so soft and sweet and juicy when perfectly ripe.
In the uk we commonly have Williams (yellow) or conference (green sometimes with a brown skin)
Ambrosia apples (the big ripe ones, not the small ones that I could swear are counterfeit Gala).
Ataulfo mangoes. Yellow. Small. Delicious.
Spanish mandarin oranges. Easy to peel, delicious. Other oranges can’t hold shade to this one.
Forelle pears. Fragrant, juicy… Bartlett pears will seem like cardboard after having these.
Sungold kiwi. Not only are they sweet, but the skin is thinner and has no hairs, so you can just wash them and eat them whole.
Granny Smith apples. They have intense flavor and solid crispness, unlike other variety vaguely sweet mushy apples. Most importantly, they’re still good out of season.
Every year I go wild with variety for 1-2 month, then return to Grannies for the rest of the year
Absolutely. Love Granny Smith.
I like cosmic crisp apples.
Same. They’ve replaced Pink Ladies as my favorite. The texture and perfect amount of sweetness make them such a joy!
Cara cara oranges. Honey crisp apples. Alphonso mangos. Vidalia onions (not a fruit tho)
Fuji apples
Care Care oranges
Sweetango apples and sumo mandarin oranges. Sweetangos are the better honey crisp.
Daisy Lane tangerine. Super sweet and small with zero seeds. Easy to peel. The perfect tangerine. Cuties are garbage compared to Daisy lanes.
Pink Lady apples or bust
Honeycrisp or fuji apples. Cara cara oranges. Meyer lemons. Still undecided on the cotton candy grapes.
I’m on Team Honeycrisp 100%, even though they always cost more.
IIRC the University of Minnesota’s patent expired a few years ago. I can usually get them for the same price as fujis and pink ladies.
Manga nunu, the one with the little nipple at the end. So sweet…
Lychee fruit is wonderful. Also pomelos, but they are hideously expensive now.
