Kids can easily choke on grapes

Grapes are “ideally suited” to block a young child’s airway and are the third most common cause of food-related choking, after hot dogs and sweets, doctors have warned.

While there is “widespread awareness” of the choking risk posed by small toys, warning labels are “routinely absent” on some food packaging, according to an article in the peer-reviewed medical journal, Archives of Disease in Childhood.

Grapes may pose a greater risk in some cases compared with small hard objects or foods, because their smooth, malleable surface is more likely to “form a tight seal” in the child’s throat, according to report authors Dr Jamie Cooper and Dr Amy Lumsden.