By the 1980s, the Red Delicious made up 75 percent of the entire apple crop grown in Washington. But its taste wasn’t the same as before. The Red Delicious was now less delicious and more ...

Consider the fate of America’s favorite apple. It emerged from an Iowa orchard in 1880 as a round, blushed yellow fruit of surpassing sweetness. But like a figure in a TV makeover show, it was ...

The apple I handed my daughter was no ordinary Red Delicious. She was about to sink her teeth into m Red Delicious apples are nothing like their 1800s beginnings | Daily Gazette Food & Drink ...

The maligned Red Delicious apple once was Washington state’s No. 1 apple crop. To some, “Reds” had their taste bred out. But they’re still here, tied at No. 2.

William died in 1949, June passed in 1992, but millions of Red Delicious apple trees live on today worldwide, and the tree’s Iowa heritage has been rightly memorialized in Madison County.

♪♪ [Jared McDonald] You don't think of Iowa being an apple state. But, the story of the Red Delicious apple starts down in Peru and starts with Jesse Hiatt.

Older types of apples, like Red Delicious, have fallen out of favor among American consumers. So growers are ripping out old fruit trees — in this case, apricot trees — to make way for an ...

After more than a half-century as America’s most-grown apple, the Red Delicious is on track to be ousted this year by a sweet, juicy, young upstart: the Gala. That’s according to the U.S ...