Dive Summary:

• California-based food breeder David Cain, a former USDA scientist, has bred grapes that taste like cotton candy in an effort to get children to eat more fruit.
• The grapes are not the product of genetic engineering and do not include artificial flavorings.
• The grapes are available for sale in Southern California. Cain is currently developing lollipop flavored grapes.

From the article:

…“It takes a minimum of six years and a lot of times, 10, 12 years to develop a new variety,” he said. “There will be a little tiny aborted seed traced in here that when you eat it, you don’t notice it. But we can actually abstract that, and put it in a test tube, and get it to grow into a little grape plant.”…​