KoRo Apple Chips Elstar 250g

KoRo Apple Chips Elstar 250g — a named apple variety, sliced thin and dried crisp

KoRo Apple Chips Elstar is a 250 g bag of thin, crunchy apple chips made from German Elstar apples. The slices are dried rather than fried, peel and all, so what you get is apple with the water taken out and nothing put back in. The ingredients list is one item long.

Why this one

• A named variety, not just "apple": Elstar is sweet with a firm acidic edge, which is why these taste of a particular apple rather than of generic fruit sweetness.
• Peel left on: KoRo skips the peeling step entirely, so every slice keeps its rim and holds its shape instead of curling up into a wafer.
• No added sugar: the sweetness here is simply what happens when you take the water out of an apple and leave the rest alone.
• Bulk bag, less wrapping: 250 g in one bag rather than ten little ones, which is more or less the founding idea of the brand.

How KoRo makes it

KoRo Handels GmbH is a Berlin food company built on big formats and very short ingredient lists. The apples are grown in Germany, sliced and dried — no oil involved, no frying, no coating. Drying concentrates what was already in the fruit, which is why a handful of these tastes considerably more apple-ish than an actual apple does.

Taste and texture: bright and tart-sweet with a clean snap, giving way to a little chew where the slices ran thicker. Against the rest of the KoRo fruit range this is the plainest and the most everyday — no tropical drama, just a very good apple doing its job.

When to reach for it

Mostly at about nine in the evening, when you want something to crunch through and not something greasy. They survive a school lunchbox without turning to dust, and a few slices next to a hard cheese make a respectable end to a meal for anyone who has run out of biscuits.

Frequently asked

• Are these fried like crisps? No. They are dried apple slices, which is why they taste of fruit rather than of oil.
• Crunchy or chewy? Crunchy, with the thicker slices holding a bit more bite. The bag as a whole snaps.
• How do I store them once the bag is open? Reseal it or tip them into a jar and keep them somewhere dry. Left open to the air, apple chips soften within a day or two.

Order KoRo Apple Chips Elstar 250g at Jerky Store Europe

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