Science is slowly catching up with what we can taste and feel: “Older varieties of fruit and veg may be considerably healthier than their modern supermarket equivalents, researchers claim”.
One of our all time favourite apples, Egremont Russet is mentioned in the following article a friend just sent me:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/
Pictured are apples on our display at the Waitati A&P Show.