Variety sheet
Elstar
Fruit Elstar
Origin
Golden Delicious x Ingrid Marie
Synonyms
n. a.
Agronomic Profile
Flowering: medium, diploid 
Vigour: strong 
Susceptibility: n. a. 
Productivity: Productivity medium, tends to biennial bearing, no preharvest fruit drop 
Harvest time: 4-2 Week before Golden Delicious 
Fruit
Size and shape: large, flattened globular 
Ground and overcolour: Ground colour yellow; Overcolour red, marbled, mottled; high (75%) 
Susceptibility to russeting: low rustiness in the calyx/eye basin and/or in the stalk cavity(<5%) 
Firmness of the pulp: 6,3-6,6 kg/cm ²at harvest 
Tendency to browning of pulp: no to little oxidation 
Sugar content: 12,8-14,8 °Brix at harvest 
Acid content: 8,2-9,0 g/L MA at harvest 
Total content of Polyphenols1: in the peel: 285,7 ± 53,3 mg Catechin/ 100 g FW; in the pulp: 54,9 ± 4,6 mg Catechin/ 100 g FW 
TAC1: in the peel: 354,7 ± 55,5 mg Trolox/ 100 g FW; in the pulp: 121,0 ± 7,9 mg Trolox/ 100 g FW 
Content of Anthocyanin2: n. a. 
Vitamin C1: in the peel: 8,1 ± 2,0 mg/100 g FW; in the pulp: 1,8 ± 0,2 mg/100 g FW 
Pectin1: in the pulp: 0,7 ± 0,1 g/100g FW 
Flavour: n. a. 
Storage: in cool store up to 3 Months 
Characteristics: n. a. 
Juice production
Yield: yield low  
Stability of the colour: absent 
Sugar content: 13 °Brix 
Acid content: 7,4 g/L MA 
pH: 3,36 
Total content of Polyphenols: 33,3 ± 1,3 mg Catechin/100 mL juice 
TAC: 56,1 ± 0,4 mg Trolox/100 mL juice 
Content of Anthocyanin2: n. a. 
Vitamin C: 1,43 ± 0,07 mg/L juice 

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