Daliclass is a modern French apple bred from a hybrid of Elstar and Pilot. It is crunchy, juicy and acidic. As is the current fashion for best selling apples in the supermarkets, its yellow rather tough skin is heavily streaked with red. It is considered by French consumers to resemble favourites such as Reine des Reinettes and Golden Delicious. Orchardists like it because it is disease resistant and pest resistant, bears a good crop every year and harvest is neatly tucked in between Gala and Golden Delicious.
The other box, on the right, is labelled 'Bicolor' which is not an apple variety, but a technical description of certain varieties which are predominately red, but with a yellow wash. Gala, Akane and Jonagored are examples. It seems to be a trend to sell apples under this label rather than be specific about the variety. These appear to be very consistent and all the same variety, but I guess next week the box could be full of a different variety.
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