This apple has a yellow peel with crimson streaks. The texture is crunchy ... A fruit enthusiast with a love for apples can easily tell the differences between these seemingly similar apple varieties.
Before the 1980s, there were usually three varieties of apples available: red, yellow and green. Growing up, Bedford mostly ate the Red Delicious variety and didn’t like apples as a result.
Apple varieties number into the thousands with different types preferred for eating, making juice and cider, baking and processing. Growers are constantly experimenting with new varieties.