Apple and White Cheddar Turnovers
A trip to the apple orchard is the quintessential fall activity. Picking apples and baking sweet treats with the spoils of the day can be a wonderful activity to share with family and friends. Soon, a new and improved variety of apple will be waiting for you out in the orchard that will add time to its shelf life and improve its taste.
Arctic Apples® are a new GMO variety of apples that are non-browning. Like other GMO plants, a naturally occurring gene is added from one plant to another to achieve a favorable characteristic. All apples contain an enzyme called polyphenol oxidase, or PPO, that causes apples to brown when exposed to oxygen. In the case of Arctic Apples, a gene sequence from an isolated apple is added to the gene sequence of another to silence those PPO enzymes that cause browning. The result is an apple with less than 10 percent of the PPO enzymes of conventional apples, so they won’t brown when you cut, bite or bruise them. That means better looking and tasting fruit that will create less waste, but has the same nutritional content as conventional apples.
There are currently two varieties of Arctic Apples commercially grown in the United States: Golden Delicious and Granny Smith. However, you will still have to wait a couple years until they hit grocery shelves. In the meantime, this tasty apple turnover recipe is the fix for all your apple cravings this fall.
Remember that GMOs are a safe food choice for you and your family. They’ve been grown for more than 20 years and have been rigorously tested, so you can rest assured that these plants are just as safe and nutritious as traditional crops.
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