Are There Any Types of Fruit That Taste like Candy?
Consumers who want to taste grapes with a different flavor are in luck. Horticulturists in charge of fruit breeding at International Fruit Genetics in California have created a new hybridized species that tastes remarkably like cotton candy, by cross-breeding a Concord-type grape with a variety of Vitis vinifera, a common grape sold in grocery stores around the country. Grown commercially by the California vineyard Grapery, the resulting fruit is a sugary-sweet hybrid that has 12 percent more sugar than typical store-bought grapes.
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“When you go to the supermarket there's, like, 15 kinds of apples,” explained horticulturist David Cain. “We want to give consumers the same array of flavors for grapes.”
Researchers are also breeding hybrid grapes that taste like strawberries, pineapples, and mangoes, but it can take 10 years or more to create a new grape. A gumball-flavored grape is expected to be the next new flavor to hit store shelves.
Cotton Candy grapes cost about $6 USD per pound -- more than twice the price of most seedless grapes.
Seems like a lot of of sugar and a lot of money for grapes. I would think the only ones would really like these cotton candy grapes would be the kids.
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The cost seems expensive but what goes into making a product like this probably is expensive. Although I wouldn't buy them. I just want to tell you that I think your articles are awesome. Keep up the good work. I haven't had the time to search on your site but I have done so before. Thank you so much for putting all this info out to people like me.
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Seems like a lot of of sugar and a lot of money for grapes. I would think the only ones would really like these cotton candy grapes would be the kids.
The cost seems expensive but what goes into making a product like this probably is expensive. Although I wouldn't buy them. I just want to tell you that I think your articles are awesome. Keep up the good work. I haven't had the time to search on your site but I have done so before. Thank you so much for putting all this info out to people like me.
I want a grape to taste like a grape.
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