Analysis of Parthenocarpy and Self-Compatibility in Apple Trees

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I’ll give this a thorough read later in the day, but a question came to mind. Can anyone comment as to the edibility of seedless apple cores? (The article mentioned towards the beginning consumers preferring seedless fruit.)

Even seeded apple cores are edible. Seedless is more palatable. I occasionally get seedless fruit from some varieties of grocery apple.

Lots of people eat apple cores despite them being a less desirable texture. Those that partake often eat the seeds too (but I would hope with minimal chewing of seeds to limit cyanide exposure). Also, some folks will use the cores and peels to cook down for pectin.

That said, many crabapples I’ve eaten have less noticeable cores (texture wise) so if seedless versions were developed, they might actually be quite nice to eat whole.

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I eat the cores and chew the seeds all the time. Did it for years before I even knew the seeds could theoretically be a problem. Never even had a belly ache from it. It seems to me the risk of the cyanide in the seeds is very low, chewed or not, as long as you’re eating no more seeds than what are in the amount of apples you can consume in one sitting.

It is good to be careful with dosage, and also be careful of accumulation over time.

Apparently there are two products that induce parthenocarpy in apples - promalin and perlan. I looked this up a few years back when I noticed almost none of the apples I got at a local u-pick had seeds inside.