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Use the chart below as a quick reference when deciding which apple is best for your particular needs.

Variety of Apple Fresh Salad Bake Cook Pie Dried Other
Ambrosia X X          
Baldwin     X X     Cider
Braeburn X X X X X   Sauce
Cameo X X X        
Connell Red X       X X Sauce
Cortland X X X X X   Sauce
Crab Apples             Jelly &
WineButter
Criterion X X X   X   Sauce
Elstar X X X   X   Sauce
Empire X X X X X X  
Fireside X X X X   X  
Fuji X X X   X   Sauce
Gala X X X   X X Sauce
Ginger Gold X X X       Sauce
Golden Delicious X X X X X   Sauce
Golden Russet X   X     X Cider
Golden Supreme     X     X Cider
Granny Smith X X X X X    
Gravenstein X   X X X   Sauce
Haralson X   X X X X Sauce
Honeycrisp X X X X X X Sauce
Honeygold X X X   X   Sauce
Idared X   X X X X Sauce
Jonagold X X X X X   Sauce
Jonamac X   X X      
Jonathan X X X X X X Sauce
Keepsake X   X        
Lady X           Sauce
Macoun X       X    
McIntosh X X   X X*   Sauce
Melrose X X X   X    
Mutsu X   X X X   Sauce
Newton Pippin X X X   X   Sauce
Northern Spy     X   X   Sauce
Northwest Greening     X X X   Sauce
Pacific Queen X X          
Pacific Rose X X          
Paula Red X X X X X   Sauce**
Pink Fir   X   X      
Pink Lady X X X   X    
Prairie Spy X X X   X    
Red Delicious X X          
Redfree X       X X  
Regent X X X X X   Sauce
Rhode Island Greening X   X X X   Sauce
Rome X X X X X   Sauce
Sierra Beauty X     X      
Southern Rose X X          
Spartan X X X   X X Sauce
Splendor X           Dessert
Stayman X X X X X    
Sunrise X   X   X    
Sweet 16 X   X       Sauce
Wealthy X   X X X   Sauce
Winesap X X X   X   Sauce
Wolf River X   X X   X Sauce
York Imperial     X X X   Sauce
Zestar X   X       Sauce

*May need a thickener when used in pies because of the juiciness of the apple.
**Very little sugar needs to be used when making applesauce with Paula Red Apples.

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