Red Delicious enjoyed its prime time in the 1980s and unfortunately, the apple’s rapid popularity led to its subsequent downfall. During its heyday, the Red Delicious was indeed delicious, but ...

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 ...

The apple I handed my daughter was no ordinary Red Delicious. She was about to sink her teeth into more than a hundred years of history. Red Delicious — the kind you see at the supermarket ...

Washington State's apple harvest, some 2.5 million tons, leads the nation, with new varieties coming online to replace the old standby, the Red Delicious.

Move over Red Delicious, America's got a new favorite apple 05:00. 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 Washington Apple Commission describes the Red Delicious on its website as “the world’s favorite snacking apple,” but all schoolchildren who have ever thrown one away know the truth: Red ...

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 ...

The maligned Red Delicious apple once was Washington state’s No. 1 apple crop. To some, “Reds” had their taste bred out. But they’re still here, tied at No. 2.