The research fairy> Red Delicious Apples Weren’t Always Horrible
> Turns out, the Red Delicious apple used to be, well, delicious. Here’s what went wrong.
https://newengland.com/today/food/red-delicious-apple/
> “It turns out that a lot of the genes that coded for the flavor-producing compounds were on the same chromosomes as the genes for the yellow striped skin,” Traverso explains, “so as you favored the more consistently colored apples, you were essentially disfavoring the same genes that coded for great flavor.”
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