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Cotton Candy Grapes!

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by: soxs mom Active Indicator LED Icon 3 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Aug 15, '15 11:26pm  
These are at HEB.  They are the sweetest grapes I've ever had. The first bite really does remind me of cotton candy!  They are pricey for grapes, but for a sweet snack that is still somewhat healthy they are worth it IMO. 4951
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soxs mom Active Indicator LED Icon 3 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Aug 15, '15 11:47pm  
These plump, juicy, all-natural green grapes are one of our newest
varieties, and they're one that everyone is excited about. Cotton Candy®
grapes taste exactly like the pink spun-sugar treat you loved as a kid
at the circus—and we mean exactly. Pop some in your mouth, close your
eyes, and you're that kid again! And here's a bonus: these grapes aren't
sticky and loaded with granulated sugar like the fluffy stuff you
munched on back in the day. But they're just as sweet—and much juicier.
This is fresh fruit you can snack on all you want. Everyone who's tried
these one-of-a-kind grapes has had a jaw-dropping, totally amazed,
reaction. Horticulturalist David Cain wants to bring back the natural flavors
of our grapes, which have been stripped away by decades of breeding
fruit to withstand shipping and storage — not to please our taste buds. "When
you go to the supermarket, there's like 15 kinds of apples — Fuji, Pink
Lady, Gala, Braeburn. The list goes on," Cain says. "We want
to give consumers the same array of flavors for grapes." And he's doing it without genetic engineering or artificial flavors. Just good old-fashioned plant breeding. Cain and his team at International Fruit Genetics in Bakersfield,
Calif., made the Cotton Candy grape by hybridizing two different grape
species. So the designer fruit is actually a hybrid. Weighing in at about 18 grams of sugar per 100 grams of grapes, the
designer fruit isn't cloyingly sweet. It has about 12 percent more sugar
than regular table grapes but far less than raisins, which have more
than three times the carbs. So just how do these green grapes conjure up the sensation of spun-sugar melting on your tongue? The
fruit has very little tartness, chef Spencer says. "It's like
there's nothing to stop the sweetness. It just lingers on your tongue." There
are also hints off vanilla, Spencer — and vanilla, it seems, is a
key flavor in the archetypal "pink" cotton candy that makes your dentist
cringe.So Cain decided to put all the flavors of a Concord-like grape into the firm, crisp and seedless Vitis vineferia by crossing the two species. (He couldn't say exactly which Concord-like grape he used because it's a trade secret). Breeding
seedless grapes isn't easy, because they can't reproduce on their own.
After fertilizing the plant, Cain and his team have to take out the baby
embryos from the plant, then grow them in individual test tubes in the
lab before they ever make it to the field. Cain painstakingly created around 100,000 of these test tube plants before he stumbled upon the cotton-candy flavored grapes. "The whole process takes at least six years and sometimes up to 15 years," Cain says. But he thinks it's worth it. "A lot of fruit becomes tasteless by the time somebody buys it," Cain says. "We want to change that." 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Aug 15, '15 11:50pm  
I need to get some of these! They would be great for snacking on, and satiating a sweet tooth. 4951
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soxs mom Active Indicator LED Icon 3 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Aug 15, '15 11:52pm  
I need to get some of these! They would be great for snacking on, and satiating a sweet tooth
 
@bp2018:  I think they would be great in school lunches too.
4951
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Grimmie Active Indicator LED Icon 3
~ 8 years ago   Aug 15, '15 11:56pm  
I want to try these! I'll be adding them to my grocery list.  4951
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~ 8 years ago   Aug 16, '15 9:29am  
Sounds delicious! Going there tomorrow. Thanks! 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Aug 16, '15 10:11am  
I saw them yesterday at the HEB in the back. I'll give them a try, 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Aug 16, '15 10:12am  
Saw them too, all I could think was GMO. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Aug 16, '15 12:10pm  
Oh yummy! Gotta try those.
 
Red grapes contain Resveratrol, it's the fountain of youth! Supposedly. Emoticon 4951
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soxs mom Active Indicator LED Icon 3 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Aug 16, '15 12:20pm  
Saw them too, all I could think was GMO.
 
@myevilgrin:   Nope, they're not-  I thought the same thing.Q: Are your grapes Genetically Modified (GMO)?
A: No. We work
hard to breed our grapes naturally over time and to develop innovative,
sustainable farming techniques that create exceptional and amazing
flavor. Our all-natural best practices ensure a unique taste experience
without the need for additives, infusions, or GMO. So when you try our
grapes, you'll always enjoy a distinctive, delicious flavor. Nothing
more. Nothing less. It's in our nature
4951
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