Refreshing Summer Recipe

 A Shavuos Treat

 

Text is from Petra of https://nutritionrefined.com/grape-sorbet/

Have you ever eaten frozen grapes? Yes? Ok, have you wondered why they taste sweeter when frozen? 

Freezing grapes doesn’t make them sweeter, but it does intensify their flavor. If the grapes are sweet to begin with, their flavor becomes sweeter. If the grapes are sour, their flavor becomes even sourer after freezing. This is actually true for almost all fruit. The reason is that fruit contains a lot of water. When fruit, such as grapes, are frozen, the water inside crystallizes and expands. This expansion breaks the cellular structure of the grapes (i.e., destroys their cell walls). This process affects the taste of the grapes as our tastebuds are now better able to access the sweet (or sour) taste. 

 Sweet grapes are excellent for making grape sorbet for another reason – they don’t freeze rock-hard like an ice cube. The inside of the grape tastes actually just like a sorbet. When the water in the grapes starts to freeze, the sugar stays in the liquid. When you freeze grapes in a regular freezer, you end up with some ice and some very sugary liquid, not a rock-solid mass of ice.