Honeycrisp Apples - Favorite Fall Fruit

Things to know about the Honeycrisp apple

• 1Honeycrisp apples are fairly new. The variety was developed in the 1960s by the University of Minnesota but wasn't released available for sale until sometime in the 1990s.
• 2Honeycrisp apples bruise easily which is why it's always better to buy them when they're packed in a crate. Most produce departments build apple mountains and don't pack them, so double-check your apple before you put it in the bag.
• 3Honeycrisp apples store well and don't lose their crispness.
• 4If you're all about the crunch and crisp, make sure your Honeycrisp apples are from the colder regions. That's where you get that "explosively crisp" crunch. The further south, the less the crisp.
• 55 million+ Honeycrisp apple trees are now growing around the world.

Play Honeycrisp Trivia with your apple-lovin' friends

• 1Since 2006 the Honeycrisp apple has been the state fruit of Minnesota.
• 2The Honeycrisp apple helped revive the apple growing industry.
• 3In 2006, Better World Report selected the Honeycrisp as one of the top 25 innovations in over a decade.
• 47,500 varieties of apples are grown throughout the world.
• 5The science of apple growing is called pomology.
• 6Apples were the favorite fruit of ancient Greeks and Romans.
• 7In colonial time, apples were called winter banana or melt-in-the-mouth.
• 8Apples ripen six to ten times faster at room temperature than if they were refrigerated.

Honeycrisp apples recipe - baking

Slow-Baked Honeycrisp Apples

Things to do with your Honeycrisp apple

1. Mixing apple chunks with medications/supplements so horses will eat them. The meds/sups I mean. They'll eat apples with no help at all.
2. Dry them and make heads out of them for dolls
3. Use them as Halloween shrunken heads.
   
   You take an apple and carve eyes, nose holes and a mouth, then thread a wire through the top. Hang it somewhere dark for a week or so until it shrinks and hardens. Apply accesories and you have a shrunken head---looks authentic!
4. Smelling Pleasurable Foods. One interesting study suggested that smelling certain pleasurable foods may reduce migraine pain. (The study used green apples as part of the experiment; patients with headaches who liked the smell of green apples had less pain. The scent had no effect on those who didn't like the fruit.)