Scientific name: Vitis vinifera

Usage: This green, seedless table grape can be eaten fresh, in salads, as a snack or as a dessert.

Selection: Good-quality Perlette grapes are well-colored, plump, firmly attached to the stem and are fairly large.

Select grapes that are fairly firm, but not rock-hard. White or green grapes will have a yellow cast or straw color with a touch of amber when at their taste peak. Grapes are always picked ripe, and do not ripen further once off the vine. This grape was developed from a combination of many Eastern European grape varieties. Perlettes are seedless, mild, sweet to slightly tart and available may through July.

Avoid: Avoid grapes that are soft, wrinkled, shriveled, shattered or that have bleached areas around the stem. Soft or wrinkled grapes means they are getting old or have not been kept cold.

Serving size: 151g

Bloomtime Range: Mid Spring

Foliage Color: green

Taste: Mild, sweet to slightly tart flavor.