Red delicious apples weren’t always horrible

Re:Red delicious apples weren’t always horrible by cultofmetatron on Monday August 02, 2021 @11:56AM (#28038330)

you would probably love the dorito effect https://www.amazon.com/Dorito-Effect-Surprising-Truth-Flavor...

Its a book about the incentives and technologies that came together to result in the deflavorization of food and the rise of the "flavoring" industry as a whole.

Of the interesting things in there is one guy using a mass spectrometer to identify flavor compounds at scale to engineer a tomato that is hardy and ships well without sacrificing flavor.

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Re:Red delicious apples weren’t always horrible by Eric_WVGG on Monday August 02, 2021 @12:27PM (#28038797)

I have a feeling that “love” might not be the right word, but adding it to the queue ;)

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Re:Red delicious apples weren’t always horrible by hvidgaard on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @03:23AM (#28046531)

Do you happen to know what this variety is called?

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Re:Red delicious apples weren’t always horrible by cultofmetatron on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @01:03PM (#28051555)

I wish! in the book, the guy has created it and was giving samples to farmers. However, despite the vastly superior flavor, it wasn't quite as productive as the flavorless ones yet.

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Re:Red delicious apples weren’t always horrible by hvidgaard on Thursday August 05, 2021 @02:26AM (#28070512)

Not quite as productive for a farmer can be plenty productive for private use - he should release it!

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