Tote Filipowers age 8, of Shreveport, Louisiana, for his questions

How do they get the seeds out of seedless raisins?

Raisins are smallish grapes, dried and dried in the warm summer sunshine. People have been making them for thousands of years. But most of those old tire raisins were filled T7ith seeds from the grapes. Then seedless grapes were introduced and some of them were just right for man’s seedless raisins. In 1378, a very smart man named Thompson brought some grapevine cuttings front Turkey to California. They produced our very first seedless gapes. Later he found out that they are very good grapes for making raisins seedless raisins, naturally.

Nowadays, several other types of seedless drapes are dried to make seedless raisins. Muscat grapes make good raisins, but they have seeds. However, the seeds can be removed before the raisins go to market. After the fresh grapes are dried, they are steamed until they swell up with moisture. Then they are rolled through a toothy machine that picks out the seeds. Once again, we have seedless raisins.