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Hidden Rose Apples are a small to medium-sized varietal, averaging 6 to 7 centimeters in diameter, and have an elongated, conical shape with flat, broad shoulders tapering to a narrow base. The apple’s thin skin showcases faint white lenticels, moderate ribbing, and a glossy, smooth sheen with a waxy consistency.

The skin also has a pale-yellow to green hue, sometimes covered in faint patches of red blush. Underneath the surface, the flesh features variegated tones of pale pink, bright red, and white, and each apple will have varying degrees of pigment with mostly white around the core. The flesh also has an aqueous, fine-grained, and dense nature with a crisp and firm texture, encasing a central core filled with black-brown seeds.

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Tart and mildly sweet, Hidden Rose Apples® have a distinctive flavor with hints of strawberry lemonade. It has a pale yellow skin covered in a faint red blush and speckled with white freckles. The vibrant pink flesh is both crisp and juicy.

Hidden Rose Apples®, botanically classified as Malus domestica, are a variegated, red-fleshed variety belonging to the Rosaceae family. The late-ripening apples were discovered growing as a chance seedling in Oregon in the late 20th century and were selected for their unusual flesh coloring and firm, dense texture.

Nutritional Value Organic Rose Apples

Hidden Rose Apples® are a source of fiber to regulate the digestive tract, potassium to balance fluid levels within the body, and vitamins A and C to strengthen the immune system, reduce inflammation, and boost collagen production.

The apples also provide anthocyanins, pigments within the flesh that contain antioxidant-like properties to protect the cells against free radical damage, and other amounts of boron, vitamin E, vitamin K, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, and copper.

History of the Hidden Rose Apples

The original tree from which today’s Hidden Rose Apple trees are grown was located on land belonging to Lucky and Audrey Newell in Airlie, Oregon. The “parent tree” of the unique apple known as the Newell-Kimzey variety grew in the middle of the Newells’ meadow just six feet from an abandoned, hand-dug well.

In the mid 1960s, the Newells moved to a large property and sold the eighty acres where this one and only red-fleshed apple tree stood.

Two decades later, Louis Kimzey, former field manager at Thomas Paine Farms, was walking through the Newells’ old orchards and picked an apple from a large tree. Biting into it, he was amazed to find the pink flesh of what would become known as the Hidden Rose Apple®.