• Question: Why do some apples taste bitter/tasteless and others are sour/juicy and delicious?

    Asked by to Daren, Lynne, Phillip, Simon on 23 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      anon answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      All apples, like everything in the world, is made up of a different combination of chemicals:
      http://blog.everydayscientist.com/wp-content/uploads/we-love-chemicals-620-450×636.jpg
      The different tastes happen because some of the chemicals are in different proportions in different apples. For example the sour apples have more of the chemical that reacts with your tongue so you identify sour (I don’t actually know which one that is!) and the juicy ones have more water in them!

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      Daren Fearon answered on 23 Jun 2014:

      The sour taste all comes from the acidity of the apple. So the amounts of chemicals like pantothenic acid, folic acid and stearic acid are responsible for the sour taste. We have bred different apples to have different tastes and this is all thanks to the different amounts of various molecules. I only really like granny smith apples, nice crisp and acidic, yum.

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