There are many ways to eat grapes – eat them fresh as a snack, make grape juice, preserve them into raisins or make some citrus grape wine. Believe me all flavors are delicious. Do you know grape growing is the largest food industry in the world? There are 8000 different types of grapes and more than 60 species. Grapes are as fruity as they look – filled with nutritional goodness. Here are some fun facts about Grapes that will make you fall in love with grapes.

Main Types of Grapes 

There are two main types of grapes American and European. The two main types of grapes come in seedless and seeded variety.

European grapes are available throughout the year while the season of American grapes are from September to October. World famous golden grape raisins are made from best-selling American Thomas Seedless grapes.

Grape Wine      

One bottle of grape wine contains 1.4 kg of grapes. It means one acre of grapes can give only 15, 000 bottles of grape wine. An average person eats 8 pounds of grapes each year. Well, that’s too much. I don’t think I can eat that much. Grapes are laxative so don’t eat too many.

How long can a grape-vine grow?

A grape vine can grow 50 feet long and can have 40 clusters of grapes. And each grape cluster has 75 grapes on average.

Low Calorie Snack 

Grapes have high content of water (80 percent) due to which they have low calories. Eat them without the fear of gaining weight.

Water Content in Raisins

The water content in raisins is comparatively less than grapes (15 percent).

Health Goodness

Grapes are beneficial for our body. They can help cure many health problems like heart diseases, constipation, asthma, indigestion, Alzheimer’s disease, migraine and kidney diseases.

Moreover, they can reduce the risk of heart attack because high amounts of nitric acid in them prevent blood clothing.

Colors of Grapes

Along with varieties the colors of grapes are also numerous such as pink, black, red, green, purple and yellow.

They are berries

Shiny leathery covering with flesh inside is a characteristic of berries. So grapes are a kind of berries.

Chinese medicine for treating illness

In ancient times, Chinese people mixed grape wine with frog and snake to make a mixture that is believed to cure various illnesses.

Favorite Fruit

OK, it is not a baseless fact. Actually, World’s Favorite Fruit list mentioned it regularly in the Top 10 Favorite fruit list.

Oldest Grapevine in American

The oldest grapevine in America is present in North Carolina. It is almost 400 years old.

Total Grape production in the World

You would be surprised to know that 72 million tons grapes are produced each year around the world.

Who introduced Grapes to America?

Grapes were introduced to American only 300 years ago by Spanish explorers.

Concord Grapes

The concord grapes are purple blue in color. The name concord is given to them because they were developed in Concord, MA.

Grape Seeds

Grape seeds are edible and full of antioxidants. Grapes contain high amounts of vitamin C and K.