Grapes: Tasty Fruit or Evil Killer? Quiz

Answer: Berry

Grapes are berries, like raspberries, strawberries and blueberries.
Examples for citrus fruit are: Grapefruit, lemon and oranges.
Drupes include stone fruit like cherries, plums and peaches.
Examples for nuts are: Coconut, hazelnut and walnut.

Answer: Dried grapes

There are many different types of raisins.
The four most common varieties are: Sultanas, Currants, Muscat and Dark Raisins (which are usually made from Thompson Seedless).

Answer: Vitamin D

Grapes are full of goodness and contain lots of vitamins (A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B9, C, E and K), nutrients and fibre.
However, the 'Sunshine Vitamin' D is not present in grapes. Vitamin D is only found in a limited range of foods such as eggs or oily fish and is mostly taken in by directly exposing your skin to sunlight.

Answer: Dates

Grapes have a quite high content of sugar, and hence also have a higher calorie content than most other fruit.
100g of grapes contain approx. 60 calories, 100g of fresh dates contain 108 calories
100g of cherries contain 53 calories, 100g of raspberries contain 25 calories, 100g of pineapple contains 38 calories.

Answer: Fermentation

The process of making grapes to wine is called fermentation.
Yeast, serving as a catalyst, is added to the grape juice or pulp, to support the process of fermentation.
The fermentation process will last till all the sugar has changed into alcohol or the level of alcohol in the juice reaches approximately 15%.

Answer: The Skins

The mixture for making red wine of crushed grapes, their skins and seeds is called the pulp or must. Most of the time the grapes will get destemmed before fermentation, as they can lead to a bitter taste. Red wine is fermented grape juice, skin and seeds while white wine is fermented grape juice either from white grapes or from red grapes with the skins getting removed as soon as possible after crushing.

Answer: Sultana

Thompson Seedless is also a popular white/green grape variety.
The three main types of grapes are: European grapes (Latin name Vitis Vinifera, these can be used as table grapes, raisins and wine production), French hybrids (mainly used for wine production) and North American grapes (Vitis Labrusca and Vitis Rotundifolia, mainly used for juicing and as table grapes).

Answer: Cancer & Heart Disease

Also, another example is Alzheimer's Disease.
Beyond its presence in grapes, resveratrol is also found in peanuts, mulberries, dark chocolate and cocoa powder.

Answer: On vines

Grapes grow on perennial and deciduous woody vines of the genus vitis. A vine is a climbing or trailing plant.

Answer: The increase of seedless varieties of grapes

This is because the grape seeds contain phytochemicals such as resveratrol. Due to the lack of seeds in seedless grapes, they lose some of the health benefits (as stated under question 8) of eating grapes.