Luochuan apple, a famous specialty of Shaanxi, is listed as an important production base for the export of apples in China, known for its color, fragrance and taste, and has well-known apple varieties such as Red Star, Red Marshal, Red Crown, Red Fuji, Guoguang, Qin Guan, Huang Marshal, etc

Luochuan, Shaanxi, is known as the "hometown of apples". The apples produced here are known for their color, aroma and taste. It has excellent quality, beautiful fruit shape, large and uniform, clean fruit surface, bright color, crisp and dense flesh, high sugar content (2% ~ 3% higher than foreign apples), sweet and delicious, moderate hardness, storage resistance (can be stored in the earthen cave until April ~ May of the following year) and other advantages and ranks first among similar apples in the country, well-known in all directions, well-known at home and abroad. The county is listed as one of the important production bases for apple export in the country, with annual sales of hundreds of millions of kilograms.

Luochuan apples are all over the world. Luochuan apples are concentrated in the Loess Plateau of Weibei, with Luochuan as the center of Yan'an, Tongchuan, Weinan and Xianyang. Orchards are distributed and stretch for thousands of miles.

There are as many as 47 varieties of Luochuan apples, among which Red Star, Red Marshal, Red Crown, Red Fuji, Guoguang, Qin Guan, Huang Marshal and so on are the best. In the previous apple competitions organized by the province and the state, the quality of Luochuan apples is among the best. In 1974, at the National Conference on the Identification of Apple Varieties, its total score was higher than that of the American snake fruit and it was well-known at home and abroad. In 1978, at the Shaanxi Provincial Standard Approval and New Variety Evaluation Conference, the total scores of Luochuan Red Star and Red Crown ranked first and second, and all the participating indicators reached high quality. In 1985, Marshal Luochuan and Guoguang apples were rated as provincial high-quality agricultural products. In 1991, it won the silver medal of the "Seventh Five-Year Plan" Spark Expo Exhibition of the State Science and Technology Commission. In 1994, at the first Yangling Agricultural Products Expo in China, three varieties including Luochuan Red Fuji won the Houji Golden Image Award. In October 1995, at the 2nd China Agricultural Products Expo, Luochuan apples won the championship in one fell swoop, winning 13 gold, 7 silver and 1 bronze medal, which shocked people at home and abroad. Due to the high quality and prestige of Luochuan apples, they sell well in 24 provinces and cities across the country, and are exported to Thailand, Singapore and other countries, Hong Kong and Macao. Strong market competitiveness. It has become one of the fist products of Shaanxi's foreign trade.

In the Loess Plateau, where ravines are vertical and horizontal, hills and valleys, the industrious and brave descendants of Yan and Huang have created a beautiful and civilized civilization, and written a long history of apple cultivation. Apples are native to Central Asia and Northwest China. In recent years, patches of primitive wild apple forests have also been discovered in Xinjiang. It was introduced to Shaanxi around the Han Dynasty. About 1947, Li Xin'an, a farmer in Asi Village, began to introduce seeds from Lingbao, Henan, and in 1960, the county only had an apple area of 2,600 acres, and in the 70s, there was a great development, and the county reached 41,000 acres. In 1986, it was identified as a high-quality apple base by the Ministry of Agriculture, and the county developed to 120,000 acres. In the mid-90s, the county reached 250,000 mu, more than 1 mu per capita, and the county's annual output of apples was more than 100 million kilograms, which has become the main source of income for farmers in Luochuan. Whenever the golden autumn season, the endless mountains are full of apple orchards and apple groves, the trunks are dark gray, the branches and leaves are red, the fruits are abundant, and the color of red is a little bit of red, as if you enter a magical world of red and bright. In this world, there are "four reds" with fine colored red meat and fragrant flavor; There is Marshal Huang, who is yellow and red, soft and fragrant; There are also verdant and lovely, crisp, sweet and juicy green bananas and "India"; There are also dense and storage-resistant, sweet and sour and delicious large and small national lights, and so on, ......and so on, which are really different from each other, and the best products are fragrant. No wonder the people of Luochuan praise it as a "cash cow" to make a fortune; It is the function of maintaining water and soil, conserving water sources, preventing wind and sand fixation, and regulating the climate, and can be called the "giant of the ravine", "the guardian of the hills" and the "natural doctor" of the Loess Plateau.

As a famous specialty of Shaanxi, Luochuan apples are rich in nutrition and high value. It contains about 85% water, 16.2% sugar, 0.38%~0.63% malic acid, and also contains various vitamins and minerals. These are indispensable nutrients for the human body. In addition to raw food, it can also be cooked, pickled, dried, baked, and processed into canned food, candied fruit, jam, fruit cake, preserved fruit, fruit juice, fruit wine, fruit vinegar and other good products for people to enjoy.

Apple as a medicinal use, Chinese medicine believes that it is flat, sweet taste, has the function of nourishing blood and invigorating qi, quenching thirst and appetizing and strengthening the spleen, for indigestion, poor appetite, stomach fullness, qi blockage, raw or squeezed juice to take it, can eliminate food and increase appetite. Modern medical research has found that apples can prevent cholesterol rises, reduce blood sugar levels, and treat high blood pressure and diabetes. It can also alleviate chronic poisoning caused by environmental pollution. Modern medical research has also shown that apples have antidiarrheal, laxative effects. In the treatment of simple mild diarrhea, only apples are eaten, and no medication is required, which is also effective. Because the organic acid contained in apples can stimulate the intestines, and fiber can promote intestinal peristalsis, so it can pass stool and treat constipation. It also has the function of nourishing the brain and sleeping and nourishing the mind. It is also rich in vitamin C1, which has a positive inhibitory effect on cancer. Apples also have the effect of relieving fatigue and maintaining skin fitness. Therefore, ancient and modern China and foreign countries have always praised Apple as a "friend of health care".