Golden Delicious
- Characteristics
- Sweet, juicy flesh
Apples
Italian apples range from Alpine dessert cultivars to local fruits such as Campania’s Annurca and the pink apples of the Sibillini.
- Alpine examples
- Golden, Red Delicious and Renetta
- Local examples
- Annurca and Mela Rosa dei Sibillini
- Choose by
- Variety, texture and actual origin
Types and preparations
Red Delicious
- Characteristics
- Sweet fruit with a dark-red skin
Renetta
- Characteristics
- Acidulous fruit suited to baking
More than one Italian apple landscape
Alto Adige and Val di Non have their own apple-growing contexts. Campania’s Annurca is associated with reddening the harvested fruit, while the Sibillini’s pink apples belong to a different local tradition.
Try it in the kitchen
Compare a sweet Golden slice with an acidulous Renetta, then choose the apple to suit your dessert. A cultivar name alone does not guarantee a protected origin.
