Jasmine Lapsley, six, from Anfield, Merseyside, died in August 2014 while on holiday in Morfa Nefyn in Gwynedd.
Her mother Kathleen said she remembered the colour returning to Jasmine's face after help from neighbours but that there was no sign of an ambulance.
She told the inquest how medics who were trying to save Jasmine said there was nothing more they could do and were withdrawing treatment.
Mrs Lapsley said there were a lot of people trying to save Jasmine but nobody to tell them what was happening, reports Wales Online .
She said 22 minutes before the first responders arrived and 25 minutes before paramedics arrived was "too long" for her daughter.
Mrs Lapsley explained how a minute after eating some grapes her daughter turned around and “was choking”.
She told the inquest about the panic they felt as their efforts to get their daughter to spit out the grape failed.
Jasmine's father Robert told the inquest in Caernarfon how he slapped her on her back numerous times after she choked on the grape but to no avail.
He also described the desperate efforts by an off-duty policeman and paramedics to save his daughter.
Jasmine's grandmother Audrey Sime told the inquest it was a surprise "how quick she's choked".
She added: "Up until today I don't know where the ambulance was."
The deputy coroner for North Wales West, Nicola Jones, warned the Lapsley family that they are going to have a "tough couple of days" at the inquest which is expected to last two weeks.
The hearing continues.
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