If A wasn't for apple, would they still be so popular?  Now that we have fujis they would.  Fujis are a super-sweet and crisp apple that were brought to the U.S. from Japan in the 1980's and took the country by storm.  We now grow more fujis than japan and the fanaticism for this delicious apple is still growing rapidly.  They even hold their crisp texture when baked, but if you use them in a pie you won't need to add much sugar.

There are even different varieties of fujis that differ slightly from apple to apple.  We grow three kinds: the jukata fuji, red fuji, and sun fuji.  They are all extremely crisp but they differ in their sugar content.  Jukata is a greener fuji that blushes pink or red and is the most subtle of the three.  The red fuji is the most beautiful of our fujis, with a full red color and a well proportioned flavor to match.  The sun fuji, while very unattractive, are the sweetest by far.  Usually all it takes is a taste test and fuji lovers are sold, but the skin is a darker red with plenty of color variance that makes them seem less appealing.  It just goes to show you that apples don't have to look like they do in grocery stores in order to be delicious.