Table grape
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Table grapes are grape
Grape
A grape is a non-climacteric fruit, specifically a berry, that grows on the perennial and deciduous woody vines of the genus Vitis. Grapes can be eaten raw or they can be used for making jam, juice, jelly, vinegar, wine, grape seed extracts, raisins, molasses and grape seed oil. Grapes are also...

s intended for consumption while they are fresh, as opposed to grapes grown for wine
Wine
Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...

 production, juice
Juice
Juice is the liquid that is naturally contained in fruit or vegetable tissue.Juice is prepared by mechanically squeezing or macerating fruit or vegetable flesh without the application of heat or solvents. For example, orange juice is the liquid extract of the fruit of the orange tree...

 production, or for drying into raisin
Raisin
Raisins are dried grapes. They are produced in many regions of the world. Raisins may be eaten raw or used in cooking, baking and brewing...

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Table varieties usually have lower sugar content than wine grapes and are more flavorful when eaten. Their flavors, however, do not survive fermentation and their low sugar content means that any wine produced from them is weak, bland-tasting and easy to deteriorate. Depending on the market for wine and table grapes, low quality wine may contain some grapes that could also be sold as table grapes, particularly Thompson Seedless. Other grapes sold as table grapes are Flame, Sultana
Sultana (grape)
The sultana is a type of white, seedless grape assumed to originate from the Turkish, Greek, or Iranian area...

, Muscat, Almeria
Almeria grape
The Almeria grape is a mild-white grape, grown in both the US and Spain. It is unusual among cultivated grapevines in that it is pistillate, and requires a second grape cultivar to provide pollen, but has remained in cultivation for centuries despite this due to its quality as a table grape....

 and Concord grape
Concord grape
Concord grapes are a cultivar derived from the grape species Vitis labrusca which are used as table grapes, wine grapes and juice grapes....

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List of grapes

Green grapes: Perlette,
Muscat of Alexandria,
Sugraone,
Thompson Seedless,
Calmeria,
Italia
Autumn King Seedless Grape

Red grapes: Flame Seedless,
Swenson Red
Swenson Red grape
The Swenson Red grape is a firm, meaty red table grape with a unique fruity flavor with strawberry notes. This was the first grape released from the breeding efforts of Elmer Swenson, and is a favorite among grape breeders and hobbyists. Though it is known as a red, interestingly its actual color...

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Yates,
Red Globe,
Ruby Seedless,
Christmas Rose,
Emperor,
Rouge,
Crimson Seedless,
Tudor Premium Red, Cardinal
Cardinal (grape)
Cardinal is a table grape first produced in California in 1939.The grape is a cross of the Flame Seedless and Ribier table grapes. In the United States, Bulgaria France, Italy, Romania, and Spain the grape is used as a typical table grape for eating and making raisins. In Thailand and Vietnam it...


Scarlet Royal Seedless Grape

Blue-Black grapes: Beauty Seedless,
Thomcord
Thomcord
Thomcord is a seedless table grape variety and a hybrid of the popular Thompson Seedless or Sultanina grape and Concord grape...

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Muscat Hamburg,
Autumn Royal,
Ribier
Brun Fourca
Brun Fourca is a red French wine grape variety that once grew widely throughout Provence and Southwest France but is now limited to small plantings within the Palette Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée .-Synonyms:...

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Fantasy Seedless,
Marroo,
Niabell
Summer Royal Seedless Grape
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