Apple review: Green Dragon
Nov. 20th, 2018 04:22 pm"Green Dragon Apples have a complex sweetness and very low acidity," says one grower's website. "Most green apples are known for their tart kick, but this apple rivals the sweetness of the popular red varieties."
Aw, man. Right off the bat, this does not sound like my kind of apple. Still, I'm willing to forgive anything that doesn't taste like Honeycrisp. Also, I've had this apple for a while and I want to eat it before it goes bad.
"Hints of pineapple and pear flavors give this apple a refreshing twist. Its many fruit esters in the aroma make it one of the most fragrant apples on the market."
Could be interesting?
Adam is decidedly meh: "A sweet sugar-candy flavor is but sightly tempered by any acidity. A hint of spice and a whisper of pear pokes though the spun-sugar haze. ... There is a succulent fruity fullness lurking behind the impenetrable curtain of sugar, a debt I guess to the Dragon's Golden Delicious seed parent. But I cannot get close enough to say what it might be. Pity. But easy to eat, if you like sweet."
Thanks, I don't! But I'm going to eat it anyway.
Verdict: Extremely pear-like, both in taste and texture. Which actually makes it feel/taste subtly wrong, like it's not a good pear. I'm disappointed that it isn't as fragrant as advertised, though there's a perfume-y note in the taste. The coarse, wet texture really started getting to me partway through; also, the skin was a bit chewy. I was considering not finishing it, but the flavor did show some more complexity as it went on; I'm hard-pressed to put a name to it, because I am not a connoisseur of such things, but it kept me going, and there is a faintly sweet-tart aftertaste that kept the whole experience from being entirely unpleasant.
Buy again? This is decidedly not the apple for me, but at least it wasn't bred from Honeycrisp.
Now I sort of want a pear.
Aw, man. Right off the bat, this does not sound like my kind of apple. Still, I'm willing to forgive anything that doesn't taste like Honeycrisp. Also, I've had this apple for a while and I want to eat it before it goes bad.
"Hints of pineapple and pear flavors give this apple a refreshing twist. Its many fruit esters in the aroma make it one of the most fragrant apples on the market."
Could be interesting?
Adam is decidedly meh: "A sweet sugar-candy flavor is but sightly tempered by any acidity. A hint of spice and a whisper of pear pokes though the spun-sugar haze. ... There is a succulent fruity fullness lurking behind the impenetrable curtain of sugar, a debt I guess to the Dragon's Golden Delicious seed parent. But I cannot get close enough to say what it might be. Pity. But easy to eat, if you like sweet."
Thanks, I don't! But I'm going to eat it anyway.
Verdict: Extremely pear-like, both in taste and texture. Which actually makes it feel/taste subtly wrong, like it's not a good pear. I'm disappointed that it isn't as fragrant as advertised, though there's a perfume-y note in the taste. The coarse, wet texture really started getting to me partway through; also, the skin was a bit chewy. I was considering not finishing it, but the flavor did show some more complexity as it went on; I'm hard-pressed to put a name to it, because I am not a connoisseur of such things, but it kept me going, and there is a faintly sweet-tart aftertaste that kept the whole experience from being entirely unpleasant.
Buy again? This is decidedly not the apple for me, but at least it wasn't bred from Honeycrisp.
Now I sort of want a pear.
