is a key flavor in the archetypal "pink" cotton candy that makes your dentist cringe. To get that vanilla flavor into the table grapes naturally, Cain and his team had to widen the plants' gene ...

Cotton Candy grapes first hit the market in 2011 ... Vitis vinifera, on the other hand, is your run-of-the-mill table grape. The exact process is top secret, but it essentially combines the ...

which will carry the Cotton Candy grape. “Once they get hooked, they want more no matter what.” Cain’s company, in the heart of California’s $1.1-billion table grape industry, specializes ...

How scientists are creating designer foods. August 3, 2013— -- intro: Science has always impacted the way we grow and produce food, but now "designer" fruits, vegetables and even fish are ...

it's the sweetness that makes the Cotton Candy grapes taste so good. According to Beagle, they're about 20 percent natural sugars, while most table grapes are around 17 percent. "It's very candy ...

Cotton Candy was just the serendipitous result of breeding East and West Coast grape species using traditional methods. Pretty much all table and wine grapes belong to the Vitis vinifera species ...

Cotton candy grapes cost more than table grapes. Promoters claim they're packed with nutrition. Growers say they tried making wine from cotton candy grapes, but the results were bad.

One such engineer in Kern County named David Cain is hoping his cotton candy ... to taste like carnival candy, but they look quite different than your average table grape. Instead of being round ...

But you'll probably never see a cotton candy grape wine, due to things like the lack of acidity and the high cost of growing the grapes. Read the original article on Tasting Table.