Superfresh Growers Organic Red D'Anjou Pear Review

Everytime we pick up a Superfresh Growers Organic Red d'Anjou pear, we're more than glad we did; they're always so wonderfully juicy and great tasting. The wife and I have never been pear eaters per se; but once we sunk our curious teeth into our first Red d'Anjou pear, it has now become a little joyous event to look forward to when seeing there's one of those delicious rouge pears sitting in the fruit bowl.

The Red d'Anjou pear is a beautiful pear to behold. It's deep maroon red color darkens to a slightly deeper maroon red as it ripens. Compared to other pears, it has a short neck, and is considered a medium to large pear, weighing about ¾ of a pound or about 285 grams.

Another really nice thing about this particular (organic) pear, too, is its thin skin. Upon researching this pear for this article, I found out the beautifully-colored thin skin of the Red d'Anjou pear has many pores that "allow the exchange of gases with the atmosphere."

Perhaps that's part of the reason the pear's interior, or its flesh, is so succulent and pleasant-tasting, compared to other thick-skinned, grittier pears. Not only is the flesh of the Red d'Anjou pear only slightly gritty, but combined with its thin skin, each bite is so light it makes it joyously easy to eat. What's more, the Red d'Anjou gives off a nice scent as you're biting into its surprisingly lightly sugar-touched flesh.

Superfresh Growers Organic Red d'Anjou pears are grown in Eastern Washington by the Kershaw family, whom of which are now in their fifth generation as farmers.

As you may have imagined, the Red d'Anjou is a close cousin to the better known Green d'Anjou pear. In fact, it's so close it's "a naturally occurring bud found on Green Anjou trees," as such information is shared by the Kershaw family on its website Superfreshgrowers.com.

As you may have imagined as well, the Anjou pear goes back to France, particularly the Lower Loire Valley region, which is in western France. According to Wikipedia, this particular pear variety "was recommended for general cultivation by the American Pomological Congress in 1852, and as of 2004 represented 34% of reported U.S. pear production, with beautiful Oregon being the primary pear producing state."

Again, while the green-colored Anjou pear is more plentiful than the red-colored Anjou, keep your eye out for the beautiful (organic) Red d'Anjou pear, even the pear-licious ones grown by Superfresh Growers in beautiful Washington; you'll be glad you did!

Sources:

Wikipedia, D'Anjou Pear, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Anjou

Superfresh Growers, http://www.superfreshgrowers.com/pears.cfm