I don't mind inclusions in my bread, but they came out soft. I wouldn't say real soft, still a definite texture differential. Threw in a half teaspoon cinnamon because apples. They say you gotta coat the apples in flour or they'll sink in your loaf. Just used the apples I had, which were cosmic crisp. Real juicy, inadvisable, got a line of over moistened dough on the bottom. Came out decent enough. I'd do it again.