Like Fuji, these apples are wonderful to eat fresh as a quick snack or sliced in salads. Kiku Apples are a modern apple variety that resulted from a chance natural mutation of the super-sweet Fuji Apple. Kiku apples are exceptionally sweet and juicy, with firm and crunchy flesh. “Its off-the-charts sweetness, concentrated Asian tropical fruit flavors, and showers of juice were like nothing that had been seen before, and by the 1980’s Washington State orchards were replacing their Red Delicious with Fuji as fast as they could.” Apples Of Uncommon Character: 123 Heirlooms, Modern Classics, & Little-Known Wonders, by Rowan Jacobsen 2.

You can also plant a Fuji Apple tree and grow your own backyard apples! Fortunately for sweet apple lovers, Fuji Apples are available year-round due to the variety’s long shelf life and supply from warm apple-growing climates worldwide. This variety has naturally low levels of acidity in the first place, letting the natural sugars shine through as they develop. Starch is converted to sugar, and acidity decreases. The sweetness of a Fuji Apple increases as it ripens. The sweet flavor of Fuji apples makes them extremely popular.

The fine-textured flesh is tender and juicy but still with a lovely crispy crunch. Fuji apples have an aromatic floral sweetness that almost tastes like honey. Fuji apples are incredibly sweet and are quite often the sweetest apple widely available in grocery stores.

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