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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.
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