kinds of apples

pete · Post by **pete** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 2:59 pm

What kinds of apples brown at a quicker rate than others? Can you please give me some websites to go on mary and other people? thank you.

Jim Lewandowski · Post by **Jim Lewandowski** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:03 pm

Can you give any reason why one apple would brown faster than another?

MaryB · Post by **MaryB** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 3:19 pm

Hi pete,

You should take a look at some of the links from the previous reply I posted. One of the articles says - "Granny Smith apples do not brown as quickly as some other cultivars because they generally have a little more acid which will limit the PPO enzyme activity." So maybe you should look up how acidic different types of apples are. Here is a link to a table of apple varieties:

http://www.hort.cornell.edu/department/ ... eties.html

You should be able to determine which varieties are more or less acidic and get an idea of which ones would brown faster or slower.

You could also do a google search yourself using the terms apple and acid. It is important to get all your background information together prior to designing your experiment.

I hope this helps.

Mary