Fruit Maven » Crab Apple http://fruitmaven.com Your guide through the wild world of fruit. Mon, 21 May 2012 17:54:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Mandarin Crab Apple http://fruitmaven.com/2009/10/mandarin-crab-apple/ http://fruitmaven.com/2009/10/mandarin-crab-apple/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:58:21 +0000 Fruit Maven http://fruitmaven.com/?p=413 If you find yourself asking the mirror on the wall who’s the fairest of them all, then this is the fruit for you!
APPEARANCE 5 out of 5 stars

Looks like a perfect little bright red cherry, light brown flesh

AROMA 4 out of 5 stars

Sweet and spicy like cinnamon

TEXTURE 1.5 out of 5 stars

Somehow both firm and mushy

TASTE 2 out of 5 stars

Quite sour, with some bitterness

OVERALL 3.13 out of 5 stars

This is by far the most adorable little apple I have ever seen in my life. I want this in a bowl on the counter, to decorate the top of apple cakes, to whip out of my purse at parties…you get the idea. As for eating — it is too tart, with too much core for its petite size and the brown flesh is just off putting. This could be a great, ornery little apple to give out at Halloween if there wasn’t that whole razor-blades-in-apples thing to worry about and if you didn’t care that neighborhood kids hate you.

FRUIT

Crab Apple

VARIETY

Mandarin

PEAK

Fall

ORIGIN

Unknown

GROWN

Unknown

PURCHASED

Grocery Store

NOTES

To be fair, crab apples generally aren’t eaten raw but I did not know this when I bit into it. Buyer beware. How can something that ridiculously cute not be snack worthy? I can not wrap my brain around this.

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