 You also may remember how the USDA measured the antioxidant content of various varieties of apples. Red Delicious, shot two, number one with Granny Smith and a surprise upset taking the number two slot. But people kept asking me, what about Cortland? What about Empire? What about Macintosh? Everyone has their own favorite. Someone even asked me, what about crab apples? All I could say was, I have no clue. That's all anyone could, in fact, say, because they hadn't been tested. Until now, 21 different varieties tested. I mean, why bite into a red delicious, when you can bite into a good ol' 569181 apple? There's actually 7,500 different types of apples, but let's look at some crowd favorites. In alphabetical order, Brayburn, Cortland, Crab Apples, Empire, Golden Nugget, Honeycrisp, and Ida Red. Here's the graph, and we have a new winner. In fact, two new winners putting red delicious in its place. We have a new loser, too, less nutritious than even a Fuji. Let's start there. Which one's the least nutritious apple? And the bad apple is Golden Nugget. What about number one, Mirror Mirror on the wall? Which is the healthiest of them all? Let's take a bite out of the tree of knowledge. Crab apples. Crab apples. Gross. What's this one, though? What's the healthiest apple you can actually buy? What options left to choose from? Brayburn, Cortland, Empire, Honeycrisp, or Ida Red? Well, it's not Macintosh. Not Empire, not Brayburn. I love Brayburn, and not Cortland. The healthiest apple-apple beating out red delicious is Ida Red.