This variety is a Golden Delicious x Indo cross named in 1948 by the Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Kuroishi, Japan. Currently it is one of the favorite apples in Japan, along with Fuji. Mutsu apples are very large with yellow-golden skin. The crisp, creamy-white flesh is rather coarse in texture and is good for fresh eating, processing (sauces, pies, baking), salads, and freezing. These apples are very juicy with a mostly sweet flavor. Mustu tastes a lot like our Golden Delicious, but keeps better and lives up to the Crispin name. Mustu apples mature in late September.