7,000 varieties of apples and the 18 you actually need to know about

What about the Jazz apple? That's the trademark term for 'Scifresh', which is a cross between Royal Gala and Braeburn.

While Jazz is relatively new as a commercial apple (2004), Braeburn isn't on the list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braeburn says "According to the US Apple Association website [Braeburn] is one of the fifteen most popular apple cultivars in the United States."

A check of http://usapple.org/all-about-apples/apple-varieties/ shows that Fiji, Crispin, Cameo, Macoun, and others are in the top-15 which are not on this list of 18 that I "actually need to know about."

When I first tried a Honeycrisp about 15 years ago it knocked my socks off! But over time the taste lost its way. Now I don't think twice passing them up in the store.

I think perhaps the same thing happened to it as the Red Delicious: Breeding for better profit (longevity in storage, appearance, etc.) ruined the taste.

An interesting story on the Red Delicious: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/09/the-evil-...