“Uh, maybe?” I could not remember. “Probably, yeah.” “Apples are picked from August through October, unless you’re getting them from someplace like Chile. When you see an apple from a US grower in June, that apple could be ten months old. It was picked green ten months ago, put into cold storage, then the supplier used a gas like ethylene to force it to ripen. It may look ripe and it might not even be mushy, but after ten months, most of its nutritional
