Oct 21, 2025 - Food and Drink
Our readers' favorite apple: Honeycrisp, by a bushel
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It's National Apple Day, and Columbus readers like theirs crisp, according to our weekend poll.
By the numbers: Honeycrisp and its more-shelf-stable descendants, the Cosmic Crisp and EverCrisp, claimed over half the votes.
The big picture: Sweet-and-tangy Honeycrisp has become the gold standard of apples, with production increasing roughly fivefold nationally since 2011, per USApple data.
- But the thin skin that makes them so tasty also makes them difficult to grow, leading to offshoots like EverCrisp, created in Central Ohio.
Zoom in: Mitch Lynd of Lynd Fruit Farm co-founded an apple-breeding program in 1998 that created EverCrisp in 2008.
- It's a cross between a Honeycrisp and Fuji apple, with more hardiness to endure Midwest frost, and first hit shelves in 2016.
Go deeper: How Honeycrisp changed the apple market
Editor's note: The chart has been corrected to say the survey was conducted from Oct. 17-20 (not Oct. 24-27).