Where Are Apples Grown? A Roundup of China's Top Ten Premium Apple-Producing Regions
Apples are crisp and refreshing with rich nutrition; eating them can beautify the skin and help with weight loss, making them a deeply loved fruit. China has many apple-growing areas, but do you know where China's top ten premium apple-producing regions are? Let's take a look below.
1. Shandong Yantai Apples
Yantai apples are renowned far and wide for their thin skin, abundant juice, crisp and refreshing texture, and sweet-tart flavor. The city's apple planting area is 2.8 million mu, with an annual output of 4.63 million tons, accounting for one third of the national export volume of apples and processed products.
2. Gansu Tianshui
Many people may not know that Gansu produces apples, but when you mention Huaniu apples, everyone knows them. Tianshui apples have thin skin and thick flesh; their most distinctive feature is that the juice is milky white and carries a milky aroma. Their shape is also different from other apples on the market, but because production is relatively low, the price is correspondingly a bit more expensive.
3. Shanxi Wanrong Apples
Wanrong apples are bright in color, thin-skinned and thick-fleshed, sweet-tart and palatable, crisp and juicy, and rich in VC. They enjoy the reputation of "one bite of Wanrong apple, fragrance lingering for three days." In 2015, the county's apple planting area was about 90,000 mu, with an output of 220,000 tons.
4. Liaoning Xiaoguoguang Apples
Xiaoguoguang apples contain 14.8% soluble solids, 13.3% total sugar, and 0.26% total acid. They have high dry matter, high sugar content, a moderate sugar-to-acid ratio, bright color, a glossy appearance, and good storability. The city's apple planting area is 100,000 mu, with an annual output of 100,000 tons.
5. Henan Lingbao Apples
The main cultivated varieties of Lingbao apples are Red Fuji, Qinguan, Gala, and Huaguan. Red Fuji has dark red or bright red skin; Qinguan is short and conical with a yellow-green background and dark red on the sunny side. At present, the planting area is 900,000 mu, with an annual output of 1.4 million tons.
6. Yunnan Zhaotong Apples
Zhaotong apples are bright in color, fine and crisp in flesh, rich in flavor, and honey-sweet in juice. They are characterized by "early ripening, good sweetness, strong aroma, crisp texture, rock-candy core, and naturally selenium-rich." As of now, the apple planting area has reached 365,000 mu, with an expected output of 450,000 tons and an output value of 2.5 billion yuan.
7. Shaanxi Luochuan Apples
Luochuan apples are brilliantly colored, dignified in shape, rich in flavor, and storability-friendly, and are rich in multiple health-beneficial trace elements such as calcium, magnesium, zinc, and selenium. Yan'an city's apple planting area is 3.457 million mu, with an annual output of 2.735 million tons.
8. Gansu Qingyang Apples
Qingyang city is located at the easternmost part of Gansu province, in the gully region of the Longdong Loess Plateau, at an altitude of 1100-1600 m, which is very suitable for growing apples. Qingyang apples have firm flesh, bright color, a thick waxy layer, moderate sweet-tart flavor, a good mouthfeel, and are resistant to storage and transport.
9. Hebei Kuancheng Apples
The main cultivated variety of Kuancheng apples is Red Fuji, with pollination varieties being Golden Delicious (Huangyuanshuai) and Guoguang. They are sweet and crisp and delicious, and rich in selenium. The main producing area, Xichagou village, currently has an apple planting area of 2,000 mu and an output of 6,000 tons.
10. Xinjiang Aksu Apples
Aksu apples are beautiful in appearance, natural in color, fine and tender in flesh, rich in aroma, juicy and sweet, sweet-tart and palatable, thin-skinned and grit-free, and rich in minerals and vitamins needed by the human body. They have a long shelf life and are renowned at home and abroad for their unique rock-candy core flavor. In 2015, the planting area was 500,000 mu, with an output of 700,000 tons.
The above is an introduction to China's top ten premium apple-producing regions. Among them, Gansu apples are considered the "most" aromatic in apple flavor, Shandong apples have the "highest" appearance, Shaanxi apples have the "largest" output, Henan apples are from the "highest" altitude orchard area, and Aksu apples are called the "most" delicious apples.
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