What's your favorite apple? Maybe it's the crowd-pleasing Honeycrisp, the tart Granny Smith or the infamous Red Delicious. Either way, before that apple made it to your local grocery store or orchard it had to be invented — by a scientist. So today, we're going straight to the source: Talking to an apple breeder. Producer <a href="https://www.npr.org/people/1255819925/hannah-chinn"target="_blank" >Hannah Chinn</a> reports how apples are selected, bred, grown ... and the discoveries that could change that process. Plus, what's a "spitter"? <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/1211596837/apple-orchard-picking-honeycrisp-fuji"target="_blank" >Read more of Hannah's apple reporting</a>. Want to know how science impacts other food you eat? Email us at <a href="mailto:shortwave@npr.org"target="_blank" >shortwave@npr.org</a> and we might cover your food of choice on a future episode! Listen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ at <a href="http://plus.npr.org/shortwave"target="_blank" >plus.npr.org/shortwave</a>. Learn more about sponsor message choices: <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a> <a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>

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