Honeycrisp apples have only been around since the 1990s and as they've become more commercially available the taste has ...

Honeycrisp apples offer a “balanced blend of sweet and tart flavors, with an exceptionally crisp bite,” Gibbons says. But these apples are “challenging” to grow, she says.

The current spike is a textbook case of market tightening: low harvest, limited imports, and sticky consumer demand meeting ...

Apple researchers divide the history of apples into two phases: before Honeycrisp and after Honeycrisp. “Somewhere along the line, we lost the idea, the concept that an apple should be good to ...

What's your favorite apple? Maybe it's the crowd-pleasing Honeycrisp, the tart Granny Smith or the infamous Red Delicious. Either way, before that apple made it to your local grocery store or ...

Jim Luby retired this summer after a 40-plus year career in fruit-breeding at the University of Minnesota Horticultural Research Center.

FOOD The tyranny of the Honeycrisp, ‘the apple we love to hate’ The core problem is it’s finicky, growers say. ‘We’d be happy to replace it with something that’s a little more ...

University of Minnesota apple breeder Jim Luby helped bring the Honeycrisp to market and revolutionized the country's apple game.

The largest apple launch in American history, Cosmic Crisp took over 20 years to develop and was reportedly marketed with a $10 million budget before it hit supermarkets in 2019.

Cosmic Crisp apples “combined that ultra crispness of Honeycrisp with a firmer texture, loads of juice, and some additional acidity,” says Kate Evans, PhD, a professor in the Department of ...