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. But like a figure in a TV makeover show, it was an ...

The long-running reign of the Red Delicious is coming to an end, and for some apple connoisseurs, it can't come soon enough. The crisp, juicy and very sweet Gala is projected to this year replace the ...

For some, it’s likely the best news they’ve heard all week: The Red Delicious is no longer America’s most popular apple. For more than 50 years, the Red Delicious has been the most-produced variety of ...

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 ...

We're just a couple of weeks away from a new crop of apples; growers in the Yakima Valley of eastern Washington, whose 175,000 acres of orchards produce some 10% of the nation's apples, are expecting ...

Olivia Rose spent most of Thursday morning knee-deep in Red Delicious apples. The Manhattanite, an artist, was busy engraving ...

The Red Delicious is no longer the dominant apple in American orchards, the U.S. Apple Association said last week, after lasting five decades in the top spot. The Gala apple is now first; Red ...

At their core, Americans have changed – at least when it comes to their apple preferences. The Red Delicious apple is likely to lose its title as the most popular apple this year, a perch it held for ...