HortResearch, a New Zealand fruit science company, unveiled a brand new apple that gives a new dimension to the "Red Apple". Not only is its skin red but also when you cut it open, so is the flesh all the way to the core. It derives its red flesh from a high concentration of anthocyanin - a healthy antioxidant.

However, while this news is already a month old you may be waiting up to 6 years before you could buy a tree to plant. This may seem a long time but in the world of breeding fruit trees this is ground-breaking fast. Without current technologies we may have had to wait decades before ever seeing the fruit in the corner grocer's store.

The fruit has not been genetically modified but rather genomically bred. The difference is that genetic modification is the artificial manipulation of genes while genomic science records and breeds fruit with like genetic makeup. In its simplest form you could take a yellow-fleshed potato and cross it with a purple skinned potato to create a new purple-skinned, yellow fleshed potato - if only it were that simple.

This isn't HortResearch's first new fruit in the market either. This company was also responsible for the yellow-fleshed kiwi fruit we know colloquially as Kiwi Gold and they have big plans for many other radically new fruit to emerge into the marketplace in the ensuing years.

Keep an eye out for this one though.