Fuji (apple)

Information about Fuji (apple)

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The Fuji apple is an apple cultivar developed by growers at the Tohoku Research Station in Morioka, Japan in the late 1930s and brought to market in 1962. It is a cross between two American apple varieties, the Red Delicious and old Virginia Ralls Genet (sometimes cited as "Rawls Jennet") apples.

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Fuji apples

Fuji apples are typically large or very large and round, on average the size of a baseball. They contain between 9-11% sugars by weight and have a dense flesh that is sweeter and crispier than many other apple varieties, making them popular with consumers around the world. Fuji apples also have a very long shelf life compared to other apples, even without refrigeration. With refrigeration, Fuji apples can last up to 5-6 months.

In Japan, Fuji apples continue to be the unrivaled best-seller. Japanese consumers prefer the crispy texture and sweetness of Fuji apples almost to the exclusion of other varieties and Japan's apple imports remain low. Aomori Prefecture is perhaps the best known apple growing region of Japan. Of the roughly 900,000 tons of Japanese apples produced annually, 500,000 tons come from Aomori.

Outside of Japan, the popularity of Fuji apples continues to grow. Fuji apples account for 80% of China's 20 million tons grown annually, for example. Since their introduction into the U.S. market in the 1980s, Fuji apples have continued to gain popularity with American consumers as well. A relative stranger to American supermarket shelves only 10 years ago, Fuji apples ranked at number 4 in 2003 on the US Apple Association's list of most popular apples, after Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, and Gala. Fuji apples are now grown in traditional apple-growing states such as Washington, New York, and California as demand shifts in both the domestic and foreign markets toward Fuji apples. Washington, the home of the Red Delicious and grower of half of America's apples, produces about 135,000 tons of Fuji apples each year, with only Red Delicious and Golden Delicious outweighing Fujis.

PLU

Common PLUs (Price Look-Up codes) for Fuji apples are 4129 (regular size), 4131 (extra-large), 94129 (regular, organic), and 94131 (extra-large, organic).

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Red Delicious is a cultivar of apple. It is the most widely grown apple in the world, red with darker red streaks, and five "points" on the bottom.

The Red Delicious, like many other cultivars, was a chance seedling.
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The Ralls Genet, sometimes spelled Ralls Janet or Rawls Jennet, is a variety of apple which originated in Virginia in the late 1700s. It is also known as Neverfail, Rockremain, Rock Rimmon, and Winter Genneting, and (in Japan) Kokko.
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Aomori Prefecture (青森県 Aomori-ken )

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Golden Delicious is a cultivar of apple with a yellow color. It is not related to the Red Delicious apple.

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Golden Delicious is a large, yellow skinned cultivar and very sweet to the taste.
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Gala is a cultivar of apple, with a mild and sweet flavor.

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Gala apples are small and are usually red with a portion being greenish or yellow-green, vertically striped.
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Over 7,500 cultivars of the apple are known. The following is a list of the more common and important cultivars, with the year and place of origin (where documented), and whether each produces cooking apples or dessert apples.
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Ambrosia is a cultivar of apple originating in British Columbia in the early 1980s. It is medium to large in size and has mostly red coloration, with yellow patches. It has cream-colored meat with a sweet, crisp, aromatic flavor and low acidity.
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Antonovka is a late-fall/winter apple cultivar that was widely grown in the Soviet Union and, previously, in the Russian Empire. Ivan Bunin's early short story, Antonovka Apples (1900), is a sort of ode to this apple cultivar.
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