What is Kiku Apple?

What is Kiku Apple?

About KIKU® Luis Braun, an apple grower from northern Italy, came across a unique, red-striped apple in an orchard in Japan. KIKU® brand apples are very exotic, with super sweet taste, attractive striped ruby-red color, crunchy with firm flesh, and very juicy.

Are Kiku apples healthy?

KIKU is healthy and practical when practising sport or just taking a break. Good for your health and hard to resist when watching television in the evening too, and miles better than giving in to sweets and biscuits. Mothers give a lot to see their children tucking into a good apple.

Can you bake with Kiku apples?

How to Use a Kiku Apple. Choose Kikus for fresh eating to best enjoy the pretty exterior and sweet, crisp flavor! Because Kikus are a crisp apple, they maintain their shape and texture for baking or food preparation.

Are Kiku apples sweeter than Fuji?

Both are quite firm and have the same strong sweet aroma with floral overtones. The flesh of both is essentially the same: Crisp, light yellow, coarse, juicy, and sweet, with faint floral notes. But Kiku tastes slightly better. It is sweeter and has more-distinct flavors.

Which apple is the healthiest red or green?

Green apple is a better source of vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin C, vitamin E and vitamin K as compared to its counterpart. Moreover, it contains more iron, potassium and protein than the red apple. As per some studies, green apples can be better for people trying to shed kilos.

What are Kiku apples used for?

The crisp apples can be used for pies and tarts; their shape holds up well when cooked. Kiku apples make a naturally sweet applesauce.

Which is better a Fuji apple or a Kiku Apple?

The Kiku “bud sport” of the Fuji has brighter red striped colouring than Fuji and is thought to be more attractive to the eye (although the flavour is similar). Kiku apples can be thought of as “Red Fuji” apples.

How big does a Kiku Apple get to be?

They are crisp and juicy with a firm flesh, like its Fuji apple parent. These apples are ruby red with light colored stripes, similar to a Gala. Kiku apples are large, and can grow to be up to five inches in diameter.

Why do people want to eat Kiku apples?

With KIKU® apples have become an important part of our daily diet. The health factor has always been associated with apples, but still more inviting is KIKU’s tempting, exotic taste, astonishing colour and firm, juicy flesh. Thats the reason why we got desire for apples, desire for Fresh Apple Emotion.

How did the Apple Kiku get its name?

Sports usually differ only in visual appearance, and the flavour and growing characteristics are generally the same or very similar to the original variety. Kiku was discovered in 1990 by Luis Braun, an Italian fruit grower who was touring an orchard of Fuji apples in Japan, and noticed a branch on one tree had different-looking apples.