What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

While I'm sure you can find all kinds of raisins in the US if you look, I mainly remember "raisins" and "golden raisins". I really didn't like golden raisins. Regular raisins were okay. Today, I was discussing with a friend the different kinds of raisins here and thought I would write about it.

I started considering eating raisins, because sometimes my blood sugar is too low and doesn't go up easily (no, I can't just eat a bunch of sugar, as that will make my blood sugar spike and then crash). I especially have trouble with low blood sugar when I'm trying to lose weight, which I am doing now. So, I asked Joel to get me some raisins, and he came back with a bunch of different kinds for us to try.

Type of raisin	Taste	Texture	Smell
Sultana preta	Rich and complex	Slightly granular	Dark and chocolatey
Sultana clara	Mild and raisiny	Slightly granular	Little smell
Sultana dourada	Like dried pineapple	Very granular, like dried pineapple	Like dried pineapple
Uva passa Moscatel	Rich and fruity	Plump and chewy	Rich and complex
Uva passa	Like fruit leather	Varied, some moist, some leathery	Like dried figs
Uva passa dourada	Like dried apricots	Plump and chewy	Light and sweet with slight notes of rancid oil

Joel ate most of the bag of sultana dourada (sultanas are all made from sultana grapes) in an afternoon. If someone had blindfolded me and told me that they were dried pineapple, I would have believed them. My least favorite is the sultana clara, because it lacks the interesting features of the others. It is super fun, though, to get to taste all these different flavors. Also, they are pretty cheap, which I really like.