Preliminary Results of Fruit Quality of Eight Croatian Local Apple Cultivars

Th e quality of the eight local apple cultivars ('Alvanija', 'Kardinal', 'Križara', 'Majdofi ja', 'Muškatnica', 'Slastica', 'Slatka srčika' and 'Punika') was studied.Cultivar 'Kardinal' had the highest fruit mass, and the cultivar 'Slastica' had the lowest.Th ere was no signifi cant diff erence in fruit mass between the cultivars 'Kardinal' and 'Majdofi ja'.Cultivar 'Alvanija' had the highest fruit height and cultivar 'Križara' had the smallest.Cultivar 'Kardinal' had the widest fruits, and cultivar 'Križara' had the narrowest.Cultivar 'Alvanija' had the highest shape index, and cultivars 'Križara' and 'Majdofi ja' had the lowest.Th e highest fi rmness had cultivars 'Majdofi ja' and 'Slastica', between which there was no statistically signifi cant diff erence.Cultivars 'Kardinal', 'Križara' and 'Punika' had signifi cantly lower fruit fi rmness but still signifi cantly higher than cultivar 'Muškatnica'.Cultivar 'Slastica' had the highest soluble solids content, and cultivar 'Križara' had the lowest.Cultivar 'Križara' received signifi cantly lower panelist score for crispness, texture and juiciness than cultivar 'Majdofi ja'.Cultivars 'Kardinal' and 'Majdofi ja' received better scores for taste attributes than other cultivars.Panelist scores for fruit shape and general impression were the highest for the cultivars 'Kardinal' and 'Madofi ja'.Th ere was no signifi cant diff erence in panelist scores for fruit size between these cultivars and cultivars 'Alvanija' and 'Križara'.It was concluded that the most promising cultivars are 'Majdofi ja' and 'Kardinal'.However, to fully evaluate their potential, comparison with other cultivars in the standard growing conditions during long-term research is needed.