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Genetically modified apples that its maker claims are nonbrowning will soon be available to customers in the U.S.
The golden delicious apples, sold under the brand Arctic, are scheduled to arrive in a select number of grocery stores in the Midwest in February. In order to produce the nonbrowning effect, Okanagan Specialty Fruits, the Canadian-based company behind the apples, eliminated the gene responsible for producing the oxidizing enzyme that turns apples brown when they are cut open.
It's never been a problem for me, only because I really don't eat them, and haven't cooked with them either (both of us prefer savory - and husband dislikes more fruit than I do ) but it will be interesting to see how this goes over in our marketplace.
Most papayas in Hawaii were genetically modified to be resistant to Ringspot Virus, they did this because the virus was decimating crops and transferring protein signatures to the papaya made it have an immune response to the virus.
Can you explain exactly how this process made the papaya flavorless? As far as I know nobody touched any part of the papaya genome that makes it have flavor, and I've eaten plenty of delicious papayas in Hawaii. Maybe I got lucky and had the non-GMO ones every time, but I doubt it.
I find it more likely this is an unsubstantiated kneejerk reaction to the scary word "GMO" (the other being that it's bad for you) without having any actual insight into what the GMO process does.
Dont let your mind be filled with that BS -- GMO stuff is bad!!!!!!!
Alot of people have stomach problems,etc after eating this garbage!!! (Its hard for our systems to digest as its not natural,etc)
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) but it will be interesting to see how this goes over in our marketplace. 
