Many dark green spots with yellow rings on apples?

Hi!
I recently bought a box of fruits/vegetables that had cosmetic issues and such, according to the store.

All the apples in it have this kind of spotting. It seems to only be on the surface, once i cut into the apples, there was some browning in the flesh but it didn't go deep and the rest of the apple was clean and tasted normal. It is not dented in or protruding out, and the surface is smooth and shiny-ish like the rest of the apple, the spots are not coarse or mushy either.

I haven't been able to find much information on what this could be, no pictures or descriptions match exactly and i'm not too knowledgable on issues that apples may have.

I attached some pictures in case my description wasn't the best.

I would appreciate any help on what this could be?

Looks like the following to me....

Lenticel breakdown occurs because of microcracks and abrasions on the epidermis layer of apples preharvest. These microcracks and abrasion can occur due to irregular water supply, as well as high humidity (> 95%), and low wind. Influxes of water in addition to low rates of evapotranspiration causes fluctuations in the amount of water within the apples and equate to this irregular water retention. Lenticel breakdown occurs mainly on the apple skin around the lenticels of the fruit, on the less exposed side of the fruit. They are characterized by precise circular darkened spots concentrated in multiple areas on the skin of the apple. Early symptoms are similar to small dimples, visible in angled light. During storage, as flesh firmness decreases, spots grow in depth and diameter and may combine. Flesh is not generally affected. From here.

I've had what looks like that on my apples. Mine also got very slightly past the skin into the fruit. I just cut those out. A tomato corer worked fine for me. Or the tip of a vegetable peeler has also worked.

If I had a load of apples like that, I'd be busy making chutney, or apple crumble, or just stewing them up and freezing into portions for use at a later date.

I would just cut the spots off and make apple pie.

I like apple cake, too.

Joylynn Hardesty wrote:Looks like the following to me....

Lenticel breakdown occurs because of microcracks and abrasions on the epidermis layer of apples preharvest. These microcracks and abrasion can occur due to irregular water supply, as well as high humidity (> 95%), and low wind. Influxes of water in addition to low rates of evapotranspiration causes fluctuations in the amount of water within the apples and equate to this irregular water retention. Lenticel breakdown occurs mainly on the apple skin around the lenticels of the fruit, on the less exposed side of the fruit. They are characterized by precise circular darkened spots concentrated in multiple areas on the skin of the apple. Early symptoms are similar to small dimples, visible in angled light. During storage, as flesh firmness decreases, spots grow in depth and diameter and may combine. Flesh is not generally affected. From here.

I've had what looks like that on my apples. Mine also got very slightly past the skin into the fruit. I just cut those out. A tomato corer worked fine for me. Or the tip of a vegetable peeler has also worked.

Yes, this looks like the issue here. I had not heard of this condition in apples even as I likely have eaten many that had it.  Interestingly, it seems quite similar to a condition in potato called 'pink eye'....and again involves the lenticels on the surface of the tuber.  In potato, the surface pink discoloration is evident upon fresh harvesting, but fades somewhat quickly when exposed to air.  But a cut tuber with pink eye will have the same subsurface brown spots that do no largely affect flavor and texture of the potato if just a few spots.  

https://potatoes.decisionaid.systems/articles/potato_pink_eye_is_not_pink_rot