Gumdrop Nougat Candy is an easy, microwaveable Christmas treat to wow your kids and brighten up your cookie trays and tables. You can make this white-chocolate based treat with Dots or jelly slices.

Just good old-fashioned plant breeding. Cain and his team at International Fruit Genetics in Bakersfield, Calif., made the Cotton Candy grape by hybridizing two different grape species.

Once they had a place in the candy bowl, these fruit drops remained for decades to come, with the nostalgia element intact.

Today, the fruit aisle is stocked with all kinds of ... rest go out of their way to remind us that they were created via old-fashioned methods. At the same time, these fruits might also help ...