Apple tree laden with fruits growing in a backyard - Peter Shaw/Getty Images When you're snacking on apples, you expect them to fragment with a loud crunch, the flavors to explode in your mouth, and ...

Nikki Conley thought the Red Delicious apples growing on scraggly trees in the front yard of her Athol, Idaho, home would be mealy and tasteless like most store-bought fruit she'd known. She was wrong ...

The apple I handed my daughter was no ordinary Red Delicious. She was about to sink her teeth into more than a hundred years of history. Red Delicious — the kind you see at the supermarket — is one of ...

Consider the fate of America's favorite apple. It emerged from an Iowa orchard in 1880 as a round, blushed yellow fruit of surpassing sweetness. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited ...

After more than a half-century as America’s most-grown apple, the Red Delicious is on track to be ousted this year by a sweet, juicy, young upstart: the Gala. That’s according to the U.S. Apple ...

Here is Rob Hoglund, 61, now an IT analyst in Rancho Mirage, California, but who as a kid lived here. This summer, in Gig Harbor, he had a reunion with some school friends. Remembering the old times, ...

When you're snacking on apples, you expect them to fragment with a loud crunch, the flavors to explode in your mouth, and for the delectable juices to run down your chin. If your local supermarket's ...