The King of the Pippins is an old apple cultivar. The rather smaller fruits are greenish-yellow with orange to red stripes when ripe. They are low in acidity and taste sweet, and for a long time this cultivar was considered one of the best apples in the world.  The King of the Pippins ripens already in September, but should be stored for a few weeks after early harvest. However, the fruits can also be left on the tree until consumption.

Cultivated apples are valued as dessert fruit, but are also used to make fruit juice, applesauce and apple jelly. Apples can be eaten as a baking apple, then often filled with marzipan, chopped nuts and honey, furthermore as a topping or filling for sweet pastries such as apple pie and apple strudel. Apples contain a lot of pectin, whose thickening properties make them interesting as a vegan egg substitute in baked goods. Furthermore, apples are valued for the production of alcoholic beverages such as calvados and cider, for which special wine or cider apples are used, which are mostly grown in meadow orchards. Covered with red sugar glaze, fresh apples on wooden stalks can be found at (German) fun fairs, where they are called “Liebesapfel”. Apples can be excellently dried and used as dried fruit or apple chips.

• Edible fruits
• Type of fruit Follicetum
• Culinary Group Pome fruits
• Taste sweet
• Trivial names (apples) Apfel, Apple, Pomme, Manzana, Mela
• Trivial names (cultivar) Reine de Reinettes, Wintergoldparmäne, Goldrenette, Königin der Renetten, King of the Pippins
• Size (fruit) 6 cm
• Taxonomy Rosaceae (rose family) Malus domestica 'Reine de Reinettes'; Malus domestica 'King of the Pippins'
• Origin Europe (France: Normandie) (Map)
• Locality Palmengarten Frankfurt (FRP) 2020