03/10/2025
Today’s fruit dessert recipes have also changed. Strudel, a pastry filled with thin dough and apples, once required added sugar for flavor, but now apples alone suffice. This shift toward higher sweetness stems from global consumers’ preference for sweeter tastes. Farmers have bred varieties with higher sugar content to meet this demand. The trend accelerated in the 1930s when the U.S. passed a plant patent law encouraging the development of sweeter, larger, and seedless fruits. Japan’s new grape variety, ‘Royal Vine,’ has a sugar content twice that of cola.
