Fans of the University of Minnesota’s Honeycrisp, Zestar!®, and SweeTango® apples, are going to love the newest addition to their family tree: Kudos™ brand MN33 apples.
Kudos™ is a beautiful red apple with a unique combination of traits including an excellent crisp, juicy texture and a sweet, well balanced flavor with occasional tropical overtones. It was developed by crossing the U of M hits Honeycrisp and Zestar!®, making it a sibling of the popular SweeTango® apple.
“Eating a Kudos™ apple is like having a crunchy, juicy tropical party in your mouth,” says University of Minnesota apple breeder David Bedford. “It has the crisp, juicy texture of Honeycrisp and the rich flavor of Zestar!® but with a slight tropical twist.”
After years of testing at the University’s Horticultural Research Center located at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and in orchards across Minnesota and top apple producing states, Kudos™ trees have proven hardy up to USDA Zone 4, with fruit ripening in late September.
While apple enthusiasts may be eager to taste Kudos™, apples will not be widely available in the marketplace for 2-3 years as commercial orchards plant trees and allow those trees to mature and bear fruit.
University of Minnesota news release
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