Sweet Sixteen Apples

Flavor and Texture

Crisp and juicy with an exotic yellow flesh and a very sweet, unusual sugar cane or spicy cherry candy flavor.

Great For

Eating fresh or using in desserts that don’t require apples to keep their shape (Sweet Sixteen apples dissolve in most recipes).

Fun Facts

  • Developed by the University of Minnesota and introduced in 1977

  • The Sweet Sixteen apple tree is extra hardy and long-lived even in harsh conditions

  • Ripens mid- to late September