That breed needed to be crossed with other breeds in order to create a cotton candy-flavored grape that would be seedless and juicy, with snappy skin. David Cain got the idea for the grape after tasting a new breed of Concord grape that was reminiscent of cotton candy but too mushy to be sold. The trademarked and licensed varietal was developed by the company International Fruit Genetics and is sold exclusively in the United States by the grape grower Grapery.
Plumcot, anyone?īut it was the Cotton Candy grape that, in 2013, arguably kicked off the specialty fruit boom as we know it. And in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the American botanist Luther Burbank developed over 800 improved and hybrid plants. By the 19th century, farmers were crossbreeding plants constantly, whether in search of better flavor, higher yield and hardiness, bigger berries, more sweetness or resistance to disease. In 1766, the strawberry-obsessed French botanist Antoine Nicolas Duchesne published a book about the berry’s different varieties and their potential for crossbreeding. These candylike fruits are the product of plant breeding, a practice that’s over 200 years old. Imagine my disappointment when, in June, I tried some grape jam-flavored Jellyberries from the company Divine Flavor and found they tasted like regular old grapes - sweet, but not Smucker’s sweet. Let’s start with the grapes, namely Cotton Candy grapes (green), Gum Drop grapes (purple) and Gummyberries (red). Today, the fruit aisle is stocked with all kinds of new temptations, and they seem to be getting sweeter. IT TURNS OUT that the Garden of Eden might have been missing a few things.
0 kommentar(er)
