An Apple A Day

Growing up, I heard that an apple a day would keep the doctor away. The other day I was at the grocery store and could not decide which apples I should buy. My father's favorite apple was the Delicious and I have followed in his footsteps. When I decided to try another type of apple, I found it lacking in taste and crispness. Delicious apples have a deep Burgundy color while other apples are pale in comparison.

My quest is to find an apple that, to me, tastes better than the Delicious. So far, I have had no luck.  Maybe it's a matter of taste, the sweetness, the crunchiness, the tartness or the crispness of an apple for individual likes and dislikes. Anyway, one can choose from a variety of apples at the grocery store. The price ranges from eighty-nine cents a pound to two-forty-nine. The Delicious apple seems to be the least expensive.

In researching apples I found that the:

Delicious is crunchy with a sweet taste.
Golden Delicious is crisp yet sweet.
Honey Crisp is sweet and juicy.
Fuji has a crunch and very sweet.
Gala is crisp, sweet and has pink/yellow streaks.
Granny Smith is lime green and tart.
Lady Alice, McIntosh, Cripps Pink, Braeburn, Empire and Cameo I have not tasted but they are on my list to try.

If it is true that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, then we have plenty of apples for our choosing. An article on the Internet gave ten health benefits of eating apples. Bone protection, Asthma help, Alzheimer's Prevention, the lowering of cholesterol, lung, colon, and liver cancer prevention, Diabetes management and weight loss. Seems to me, that apples might help us be healthier!

"Why do we need so many kinds of apples?

Because there are so many folks.

A person has  right to gratify his legitimate taste.

If he want twenty or forty kinds of apples

for his personal use.....he should be accorded

the privilege. There is merit in variety itself.

It provides more contact with life, and leads

away from uniformity and monotony."

Liberty Hyde Bailey