The ideal Honeycrisp apple is a delicious blend of sweet and tart. However, some say Honeycrisp apples don't taste the way they remember. Here's why.

Every time you bite into a Honeycrisp apple, setting off an explosion of crunch and sweetness in your mouth, you can thank the ever-patient fruit breeders at the University of Minnesota. It’s ...

Honeycrisp apples offer a “balanced blend of sweet and tart flavors, with an exceptionally crisp bite,” Gibbons says. ... making it simple to match taste preferences with the right apple. ...

The “Honeycrisp” apple is sweet and crisp with a bit of tart flavor and is wildly popular among consumers. “Honeycrisp” owes its super crunchiness and flavor to genetic variation.

And that's a bad thing -- for the apple. "Cool weather is key to the great taste of the Honeycrisp," he said. "So when it's grown in warmer climates, the quality deteriorates." ...

"Honeycrisp is a wonderful apple – great name, great marketing, really popular with people. But only about 40% of the Honeycrisp makes it from the orchard to the grocery store," says Susan Brown ...

Very few apples meet their strict standards for quality, taste and shelf-life. Clark said the research team usually tests out more than 10,000 combinations before they can find one new variety ...

Nowadays, Honeycrisp apples simply don't taste the way they used to. The reasons, while layered, ultimately come down to the fact that this delicate apple variety wasn't made to be grown on a ...

1. Cosmic Crisp. 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.