How We Went From Red Delicious Apples to Honeycrisp Apples : Planet Money : NPR

Note: This episode originally aired on 2015

For a long time, all apples in the grocery store looked and tasted the same, and none of them were very good.

Today on the show, we tell you how to grow an ugly apple into a delicious one. The story begins when a breeder discovers a magical apple. But discovering the apple wasn’t enough.

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