Nice database (got a brief glimpse before it was hugged to death). Personally, I’ve always really liked this apple rating site (no affiliation):<p><a href="https://applerankings.com/" rel="nofollow">https://applerankings.com/</a>
This is hilarious thank you.<p>I used to work for some growers on various bits of custom systems and some of those fruit names were their big sellers.
Blanket apple ratings are silly. You need ratings for apple on hand, baking apple, pig apples, etc.
A lot of fruits seem to have their varietal information flattened out by the time they get to market (i.e. a yellow peach is just a peach yet there are many kinds of yellow peaches).<p>Apples have not, and I think that's great.<p>Is this because other fruit varietals are generally not significantly different? Is there some special sauce behind apple distribution?
It’s refreshing to see a site that’s just a database without five popups asking for a newsletter subscription. Just pure, unadulterated pomology
> Just pure, unadulterated pomology<p>The site is caught in something of a bind as to its name. "Pomiferous" isn't correctly formed; it means "fruit-bearing", because Latin <i>pomum</i> refers to all fruit equally.<p>The word for an <i>apple</i> is <i>malum</i>. But in an English-speaking context, that will tend to confuse people over similarity to the word for evil, which is... <i>malum</i> [compare "malevolent"]. (In Latin, the word for "apple" has a long A, while the word for "evil" has a short A, but this is not a distinction we can draw in English.)<p>-logy is a Greek-derived suffix and you'd want a Greek root. For apples, the ancient Greek word appears to be "melon", so your word would be "melology".
pomiferous looks like a labor of love. Labor is finite.<p>I use this site for many years: <a href="https://www.orangepippin.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.orangepippin.com</a>
Ha! I very recently started something for peppers (Capsicum)
<a href="https://pepperrank.com/" rel="nofollow">https://pepperrank.com/</a>
Data quality on Scoville is unfortunately garbage; Testing is expensive and both individual plants and individual growers/fields are highly variable, so nearly everyone is playing 'telephone' making subjective claims in relation to "known" standard varieties which are also usually subjective claims.<p>"Slightly hotter than a Jalapeno" means very little when a Jalapeno is anywhere from 3,000 scoville to 60,000 scoville.
How expensive is testing now? It looks like the standard method is HPLC analysis of capsaicinoids. I found old forum posts from about 10 years ago indicating $50-$65 per test from providers including SBL, which doesn't sound bad, but I don't know if prices have gone up recently.
Why are you making my screen look dirty? lol
I read that wrong at first.
500 error. Hope it comes back online soon, I really want to see this one!