Variety sheet
Red Delicious Standard
Fruit Red Delicious Standard
Origin
Chance seedling, probably a seedling of Gelber Bellefleur
Synonyms
n. a.
Agronomic Profile
Flowering: medium, diploid 
Vigour: medium 
Susceptibility: n. a. 
Productivity: Productivity medium, tends to biennial bearing, tends to preharvest fruit drop 
Harvest time: 4-2 Week before Golden Delicious 
Fruit
Size and shape: large, rectangular conoid, rectangular with waist 
Ground and overcolour: Ground colour whitish-yellow; Overcolour violet, compact; extremely high (100%) 
Susceptibility to russeting: absent 
Firmness of the pulp: 7,2-8,2 kg/cm ²at harvest 
Tendency to browning of pulp: medium oxidation 
Sugar content: 11,3-12,5 °Brix at harvest 
Acid content: 2,7-3,6 g/L MA at harvest 
Total content of Polyphenols1: in the peel: 534,5 ± 19,6 mg Catechin/ 100 g FW; in the pulp: 105,1 ± 10,4 mg Catechin/ 100 g FW 
TAC1: in the peel: 540,3 ± 33,9 mg Trolox/ 100 g FW; in the pulp: 198,6 ± 15,4 mg Trolox/ 100 g FW 
Content of Anthocyanin2: n. a. 
Vitamin C1: in the peel: 7,1 ± 0,7 mg/100 g FW; in the pulp: 1,3 ± 0,3 mg/100 g FW 
Pectin1: in the pulp: 0,8 ± 0,2 g/100g FW 
Flavour: n. a. 
Storage: in cool store up to 3 Months 
Characteristics: n. a. 
Juice production
Yield: yield medium  
Stability of the colour: strong oxidation after juice production 
Sugar content: 12,3 °Brix 
Acid content: 2,6 g/L MA 
pH: 3,95 
Total content of Polyphenols: 41,4 ± 0,7 mg Catechin/100 mL juice 
TAC: 59,6 ± 1,1 mg Trolox/100 mL juice 
Content of Anthocyanin2: n. a. 
Vitamin C: 1,18 ± 0,01 mg/L juice 

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1 after two months of normal cool storage
2 only for red fleshed varieties