Talk:Sultana (grape)

message: This is an unhelpful article. It fails to clarify the difference between dried grapes adequately, it is US-centric,especially as sultanas are a staple food throughout the Middle East and Asian countries, and omits processing and nutritional data.
Please someone, rewrite or delete.
Thank you.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.138.23.137 (talk) 14:13, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sultanas, raisins, currants 

message: I know that this grape was planted in northeast part of Brazil, with weak results.Agre22 (talk) 12:59, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Bad results in Brazil

message: At the end of the fourth paragraph is this statement:  "Most non-organic sultana grapes in California and elsewhere are treated with the plant hormone gibberellin.[9]".  I don't understand why this is here; while it may be true that the grapes are treated with gibberellin, it's certainly also true that the grapes are treated with many other things as well.  If gibberellin is such an important issue that it warrants mentioning, maybe it deserves its own section with appropriate elaboration? Novernae (talk) 15:18, 24 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It is rather common to treat Sultanas with gibberellin as opposed to all other grapes. The wording and context certainly could be better. --Ettuquoque (talk) 07:54, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why mention gibberellin? 

message: We say "These are typically larger than the currants  made from Zante grapes, but smaller than "normal" raisins." Can we have a cite for that? Because I usually expect sultanas to be larger than raisins. 86.164.69.239 (talk) 18:32, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Size 

message: Appears to have been written from a US perspective and is assuming (yet again) that the practice in eg the UK is the same as in the US. It says for example "The term "sultana" is rarely used to describe raisins." Not true, I can go and buy bags of sultanas from any supermarket. It seems very muddled. Also "anglo-america" appears to have a different meaning to what the editor intended. 92.15.2.21 (talk) 22:15, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Raisins section needs work and clarification 

message: I live in South Africa where Sultanas are very popular. It is true that Sultanas are grown and exported from South Africa however whether or not they are originally "from" South Africa I doubt very much.
--Brendan Hide (talk) 16:31, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sultanas being "from South Africa" 

message: I agree with the above comment that this article is too U.S.-centric. It begins by saying that sultanas are a white grape, but here in the United Kingdom, it is possible to buy dried grapes called sultanas which are definitely not white. Vorbee (talk) 17:38, 28 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Sultanas versus dried grapes

message: Why does Kismis redirect to this article, yet the term "kismis" is mentioned nowhere in the text of the current version of the article?  Please fix this situation. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 22:59, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: "Kismi"

message: I read the article and still can't figure out of this is a grape variety, a synonym for raisin, or a golden raisin. I was informed that Asia Minor "later" became part of the Ottoman Empire, although not what event its joining followed to inform us of a later occurrence for that than its origination. This implies that it is some kind of cultivar? Later in the article its a golden raisin? I'm not sure what to do about it because I'm not able to figure out if its a variety of grape or a dried fruit. Please help. Dixiecrow (talk) 12:53, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks like the primary subject of this article is a variety of grape. There is also a type of raisin known as a sultana. I think this article is a little more confusing than necessary because we go into too much detail on the raisin. Larry Hockett (Talk) 13:06, 6 August 2022 (UTC)

text: I trimmed the information that went into detail about the raisin. Larry Hockett (Talk) 13:11, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Should we add Vitis vinifera L. cultivar 'Thompson Seedless'?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dixiecrow (talk • contribs) 13:20, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are they grapes or raisins?