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Group 9 classification
9.10.10/15[To Classification]
Dessert apple / Cooking apple
Apples have been subdivided into these two categories, allowing particular varieties to be specified at the food item level, for example:
DiscoveryBright red dessert apple
Golden DeliciousYellow dessert apple
Granny SmithGreen dessert apple
Bramley's SeedlingGreenish-yellow cooking apple, sometimes with reddish flush/stripes

The division of apples into the categories Dessert apple and Cooking apple is somewhat arbitrary as some varieties can be used in both ways. Any further subdivision, for example by skin colour, may be more problematical and the food item level could be used for individual varieties. Rather than doing this by enumerating all possible types, a better option may be to assign categories for the major traded varieties and create an Other apple varieties category, or alternatively more specific ones such as Other red dessert apples. Any comments?
27 April 1999

9.20.15[To Classification]
Damson
The Damson plum, sometimes termed Prunus domestica var damascena, is the cultivated form of the bullace, Prunus domestica var institia. The smallest variety of damson (Shropshire Damson) is also known as Prune damson.
9.50.44[To Classification]
Custard apple
Custard apples are a group of fruits from trees of the Anona (or Annona) genus, including:
CherimoyaAnona cherimoliaSherbet fruit
Sweet sopAnona squamosaSugar apple, 'True' custard apple
Sour sopAnona muricata 
Bullock's heartAnona reticulataNetted custard apple
IlamaAnona diversifolia(Eurocode 2 93/1, code 9.1.25)
9.50.50[To Classification]
Sapodilla
The fruit, the size of a small apple, of the evergreen sapodilla tree (Achras sapota, also quoted as Manilkara achras and M. zapota). Synonyms for the fruit include Chico/Chiku/Chickoo, Naseberry/Noiseberry, and Sapota.

In view of the similarity of the synonym Sapota to the separate Eurocode 2 category Sapote, Calocarpum sapota (Marmalade plum), the two categories may refer to the same fruit. Any further information on Sapodilla or Sapote would be appreciated.
27 April 1999

 

 

 

Documentation updated:  27 April 1999
Discussion updated:  27 April 1999
Ian Unwin