Makes me wonder that the reviewer is only baiting Smitten lovers to write about it’s wonderfulness. I’ve had only one, but I’d get it again if I couldn’t get Winesaps.

Bought a few smitten apples the other week to try. I made sure to try a few before making judgement (in case I just got a bad one). It was edible, nothing special…. why settle for that when there are better options?. Unsure whether this is the “breed standard” but my smitten apples were small compared to other breeds….this may be convenient for lunch boxes, but I felt underwhelmed, finishing it in so few bites 🙁

I LOVE this apple! I stopped eating uncooked apples because all I ever got were mealy textured apples. I ate one and the flavor is sweet and a little tart, very crunchy! YUM! My favorite now!

This is by far my favourite apple. If I see it, I buy it and will throw out other apples I have to make way for them. I think this is a troll review.

I currently have this apple in front of me and took one bite and immediately got sad. My bite is exactly like the writer’s post. Definitely green and red streaks and fairly large in size. The bag writes that it’s grown in the US, so we now know why it tastes like marginally sweet sand.

This apple isn’t in stores where I live on Northeast coast USA. The only place I’ve ever found it is a couple rows off to the side on the perimeter of a pick-your-own orchard. They just seem to have been planted there to fill the space and not a lot of people walk down there — but they’re missing out.

Smitten are incredibly sweet and juicy apples, with a strong but mellow honey aftertaste. They are crunchy and juicy like a honeycrisp, but with thinner skin you barely notice when you bite, and the juice is not “watery” but super sweet and almost very lightly spiced. There is definitely no hardness like this site mentions. They aren’t as complex as many apples, and they’re missing some acidity I expect from a honeycrisp, cosmic crisp, or koru (my three supermarket favorites). They have flesh the color of butter, and honestly, their skin is a bit pale and I see why people walk right by them because they’re smaller and narrower than a “perfect” large showy apple variety. Definitely not too pretty.

But I found I tore through three of them on my wander around the orchard and kind of wanted to eat one more. I went back to add more to my bag.

Now every year I head to the orchard in early September and enjoy smitten apples until I get kind of sick of them. I look forward to them at the end of summer. They even hold up alright in apple crisp or a pie.

Smitten apple is, Ok. Definitely at the higher end of good apples. But. I think there is Nothing like a Bramley Apple for sauce, pies, baked apples etc. Also a great tree for kids to climb, unlike other apple trees that are more fragile. A very large fruit, quite spectacular. But not suitable for eating uncooked: very sharp, extremely strong apple flavour!

Someone must have mixed up the labels at the reviewers grocer. What they’re describing isn’t a smitten apple. They are crisp, sweet, and juicy and yeah, like another commenter said it’s one of the few apples where I’ll eat multiple in a row. The reason for me being here at all was because I was searching the web for information on why they’re out of stock.
I should say though, I’m in New Zealand. It wouldn’t surprise me if US growers are making a total hash of their produce.

Eating my first Smitten now – and yum. Very crisp, sweet/tart is great and tasty. I’m getting more of these. But I’m sure if I sat it in my window for a month it would taste like a bag of worm castings. I’m thinking that ranking apples is an impossible task given that you know nothing of where a piece of fruit has been.

Bought at my local Walmart in Toronto and grown in Ontario. I don’t know where the reviewer has gotten theirs from but my smitten are perfect. Biting into it is like crushing a grape in your teeth; a burst of flavour and fresh juice.