To miss seeded grapes

[fruitylind]

I haven't seen any in England for years. I much prefer them as its so easy to overeat seedless grapes and they are less sweet. Seedless often seem about as healthy as haribo and it can't be right to make them seedless and so sweet. Other countries still have them, just not the UK.

[DoreenLethal]

looks out of dining room window at the grapevine that was just harvested last week<

What about growing your own?

[fruitylind]

Do you live in the north?

[Pico2]

I'm not sure that it is the seedlessness that makes them sweet, probably market forces compelled growers towards both seedlessness and sweetness.

I'm not convinced that they are much like Haribo either.

[WorraLiberty]

Lidl sell seeded grapes as I found out by mistake last week.

I much prefer seedless.

[howabout]

YANBU

Apparently we are too lazy to pick the seeds out in the UK.

I much prefer seeded as the skins are not so tough and they are bigger and juicier.

[ToBeAChadsman]

We sometimes get seeded grapes in our veg box (Riverford) - agree that they're delicious but it's a pain to deseed them for my 3yo!

[TPel]

I had some delicious black seeded Muscat grapes from ocado this week.

[DoreenLethal]

Do you live in the north?

Derbyshire. Why?

[Katarzyna79]

youre a mind reader ey? I was just packing my kids some grapes today and I noticed it said seedless, got me thinking these are not real grapes. if my kids ever visited a third world country and ate the grapes there they would complain of the seeds but they are the most delicious and natural form.

Asian grocery stores usually have seeded grapes if you have any near you, I mean the south indian stores, but all of their produce have no dates so don't leave in the fridge for a week eat within a few days.

[ToadsJustFellFromTheSky]

Just a bit, yes.

Grapes with seeds in are horrible.

[ToadsJustFellFromTheSky]

My local greengrocers sells grapes with seeds in. However they don't actually tell you this so I was a bit when I accidentally bought some one day.

I now make sure all the grapes I buy specify that they are seedless.

[GreenSand]

The seeded grapes here are as sweet as the seedless.
They are a pain to prep for lunch boxes at 6am!

[Theoretician]

My Asda do a large seeded red grape, each grape is the size of four normal grapes.

[FrozenPonds]

Bit spitting seeds out is horrible.

Or do you slice the grapes and remove the seeds? Or eat the seeds

I buy seedless oranges, grapes, and anything else 'easy'.

We have an automatic car too, why make thongs harder for yourself?

[Bunbaker]

YABU. I found seeded grapes a PITA. I like being able to pop a whole grape into my mouth and not have to spit the seeds out.

[howabout]

FrozenPonds How do you deal with cherry stones and orange pips? I half the grapes with my fingers and pick the seeds out of the central gully. Pomegranates really only work if you have an open fire to throw all the bits at.

[ToadsJustFellFromTheSky]

I know you weren't talking to me, but I don't like cherries or oranges, so that's not a problem here .

It's seedless grapes for me all the way.

[Bunbaker]

Cherry stones and orange pips are much bigger than grape seeds, and not all oranges have pips.

[howabout]

Toads now I want to know how much of the apple core you leave? I just eat it seeds and all.

[ToadsJustFellFromTheSky]

Quite a bit actually.

Then again, I'm not really keen on apples neither so rarely eat them.

[helenahandbag]

Urgh, my granny always had seeded grapes when I was little and eating them was such a faff. Seedless all the way!

[Bunbaker]

I don't eat apple cores or seeds either. The seeds contain a substance that can convert into poisonous hydrogen cyanide in the intestine, but not enough to kill you unless you eat industrial quantities of them.

[TheGreenNinja]

Lidl sell seeded grapes alongside seedless ones. Yabu to miss them though, seedless are so much nicer!
Do try a grapevine though, seriously, they are usually insanely prolific. We had one in our last house which we had to manically hack back every year to stop it taking over and it reliably produced bunch upon bunch upon bunch of (seeded) grapes. We are not gardeners and ignored it all the time (apart from the yearly hack).

[FrozenPonds]

Howabout I buy Navel or Valencia oranges, and I have a cherry stoner .

We rarely buy cherries to be honest, they are not worth the effort.

[Mistigri]

You virtually can't buy seedless grapes here (France), all grapes have seeds whether they are locally produced or imported. So if you can't buy them in the UK it's because consumers don't buy them. If they did, supermarkets would stock them.

I don't think sweetness is a particular feature of seedless grapes though. Sweetness is more to do with the variety and how ripe they are. Seeded grapes in France tend to be sweeter than seedless ones in the UK, probably because they are picked riper and transported less far.