Volume 45 Number 1 Article 11
Year 1991 Month 1
Title: Taste Ratings of New Apple Cultivars
Authors: R. Stebbins, A.A. Duncan, O.C. Compton, and D. Duncan
Abstract:
Panels of volunteers tasted apple cultivars on
16 dates in 1988, 1989, and 1990. Fruit were
from trees on either M.26 or M.7 rootstocks
planted in 1985-1987 and trained to the central
axis method in a research plot at Corvallis,
Oregon.
Three or four samples of 10 fruit per
cultivar were harvested at weekly intervals and
kept in cold storage at about 1°C until two days
before tastings.
Only fruit from the best-tastin~
samples were rated.
Mean taste ratin~s for 'Fuji,
'Braebum; 'Melrose; 'Elstar, 'Gala, 'Liberty;
'Spartan; 'Empire; and some others were significantly
higher than for 'Delicious' on most dates.
Ratings for 'Jona!\,old; 'Brock; 'Mutsu; 'Golden
Supreme; 'Elstar, and some others were only
occasionally higher than ratings for 'Golden
Delicious:
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