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Are these apples edible/what's wrong with them?

BouncingBackBouncingBack Posts: 142
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As the title says - can we eat these and if so can we eat them raw with the skin on? What's caused this? It's not bruising.
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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    They are not perfect as eaters. I would just peel then eat or cook.  There is huge waste of similar apples picked in orchards, the public won't have them and the supermarkets expect perfect round apples of a certain weight.
  • BouncingBackBouncingBack Posts: 142
    We've had a couple off the tree that were eaten raw and lovely, but they didn't have this marking - I don't mind what it looks like and would happily eat them myself, just want to understand what's caused it and whether it's dangerous?
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    Skin damage is from when the fruit is rubbed against the bark, usually when it is a windy season. The small holes are wasp damage as much as anything. Fairly common problems with home grown apples. No danger to consumer, just no pretty.
  • tigerburnietigerburnie Posts: 131
    I'd peel 'em and eat 'em.
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    No apple disease is going to do a human any harm. I had similar marks this year, I think it is wind damage when they were smaller.
  • BouncingBackBouncingBack Posts: 142
    This is all great to hear, thanks. The tree produced very little fruit (I over pruned last winter due to inexperience) so what it did make are mostly enormous. The one with the wasp marks is the smallest! 
  • RedwingRedwing Posts: 1,511
    The multiple tiny black spots shown in the first picture is a type of common harmless fungus.  Don't worry about it but if you do peel and eat them or cook with them.
    Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Many of our apples look similar.  I just wash them thoroughly, and eat the skins as well - if you quarter them through any black bits, you can cut the black bits out if they go through the skin into the flesh.  I've even managed to persuade my husband, who was brought up on perfect supermarket apples, to do the same.   :)
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    We have many such apples on our trees - more like this than usual.
    I'll admit to having chopped out any bad bits, but stewing and bottling the rest. Still got quite a few apples on the tree, but I've almost run out of jars. I'm still eating stewed apple from 2021, so the cupboard is full. 
    Nothing usable is wasted. The bits cut out, go on the compost heap. 
  • diggersjodiggersjo Posts: 172
    Is the tree in a lot of shade?
    Yorkshire, ex Italy and North East coast. Growing too old for it!
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