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.
