Apples' varieties differs between each other in the appearance, colour, taste, odour and texture. These characteristics in addition to the apple variety, differs also because of the base and pedoclimatic conditions. On these characteristics, we can affect also with apples’ picking time and storage conditions. With sensory analysis, we want to check popularity of varieties ‘Golden Delicious’, ‘Braeburn’, ‘Fuji’ (clone ‘Kiku 8’), ‘Topaz’ and ‘Red Delicious’ among colleagues according to the overall impression. Beside this, we have defined sugar and acid content and hardness of apples with instrumental measurements to compare marks from sensory analysis of different parameters to measured values with instruments. We concluded that variety ‘Braeburn’ is the most appreciated among consumers according overall impression. Consumers were convinced with texture (feeling in month). Firmness measurements confirmed that variety ‘Braeburn’ had the firmest fruit and also the highest acid content. Variety ‘Golden Delicious among consumers a well-known variety reached second place according to overall impression. Despite our expectations variety ‘Fuji’ was not well accepted because consumers described its smell and taste as insipid, empty and also starchy. Variety ‘Topaz’ had the highest sugar content.
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