Do I eat it or bake it?

Canadas apple season begins in August and usually extends until November. Our handy guide gives you the basic uses, tastes and textures of some of our most popular homegrown varieties
Apple texture Apple taste
Hard Crisp/soft Tart Sweet
The rst Gala tree was a successful cross between a Golden Delicious and a Kidds Orange Red in New Zealand in the 1930s

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Gala
Grown in: Ont., Que., N.S.

Spartan Empire
Grown in: B.C., Ont., Que., N.S. Grown in: B.C., Ont., Que., N.S., P.E.I.

Paula Red
Grown in: Ont., Que., P.E.I., N.B. Granny Smiths originate from Australia

Golden Russet
Grown in: Que., N.B.

Cortland
Northern Spy
Grown in: Ont., Que., N.B., N.S., P.E.I. Grown in: Ont.

Russet
Grown in: Ont., N.S.

Granny Smith

McIntosh
Grown in: B.C., Ont., Que., N.B., N.S., P.E.I.

Braeburn
Grown in: B.C.

Golden Delicious
Grown in: B.C., Ont.

Grown in: B.C.

Vista Bella
Grown in: Que., N.B.

Fuji
Grown in: B.C, Ont.

Ida Red
Grown in: Ont., N.S.

Honey Crisp Jersey Mac Ambrosia

Grown in: B.C., Ont. Grown in: Ont., Que., N.B.

Red Delicious
Fujis come from Japan and are a hybrid of the Red Delicious and Ralls Genet Grown in: B.C., Ont., Que., N.B., N.S.

Grown in: B.C., Ont., Que., N.B., N.S. McIntosh apples were discovered in 1796 on a farm near Morrisburg, Ont.

Ambrosia apples originate from an orchard in British Columbia, where they were discovered growing in the 1990s

Sources: nsapples.com; preparedpantry.com; ats-sea.agr.gc.ca; bctree.com; onapples.com; Wikipedoa

SUSAN BATSFORD, GRAPHICS EDITOR, TWITTER @SBATS1; INFOGRAPHIC BY MEGAN DINNER/QMI AGENCY