Have You Tried These Grapes That Taste Like Cotton Candy?

Kristin Appenbrink
Kristin Appenbrink
Kristin is the co-founder of Part Time Vegan and Silent Book Club. As a former editor at Real Simple, she is compulsively organized and loves solving people's problems. She has a weakness for desserts, especially ice cream.
updated May 1, 2019
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If you’ve been having trouble getting your kids (or yourself) to eat more fruit, there might be a new solution for you. Breeders in California have developed a green grape that tastes exactly like cotton candy.

These grapes aren’t just a marketing gimmick; instead the grower is trying to rediscover the original flavors of many of the grape varieties sold in grocery stores. Commercial production has stripped out a lot of the taste over the years, so this is actually an attempt to bring it back. Cotton candy grapes look the same as regular green grapes, but they taste much sweeter.

We’ll be interested to try them if they become available in our grocery stores, and see what other familiar flavors they end up with.

→ Read more: The Cotton Candy Grape: A Sweet Spin On Designer Fruit from NPR

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