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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To date, the Cotton Candy™ table grape has become a worldwide symbol of fruit innovation. It surprised millions – adults and children, alike – with its toffee-like taste, raising the bar for ...

Here's the deal. Cotton candy grapes are...exactly what they sound like: grapes that, through some mad scientist-style cross-breeding, taste like they're straight out of a carnival. They're more ...

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.