Are you a red grape person, or a green grape person? What’s the difference & is one healthier than another? How did grapes become seedless? What about concord grapes? These questions answered & more just for you, right here. Let’s get started.
Red Grapes vs. Green Grapes
If you’re looking for the healthiest grape, red grapes are the clear winner. The anthocyanin that makes red grapes red is actually a mutation of green grapes, and what makes red healthier than green. This phytonutrient that gives red and purple foods their color, helps prevent cancer, diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease & also has antimicrobial properties. There is also resveratrol, which can aid in menopausal symptoms. We can say that red grapes are the feel good grapes. Green grapes may not have all that red grapes have to offer but they are still a healthy fruit with lots of vitamins and minerals, so if you’re in a superfood mindset go for red grapes, but if flavor is #1, the choice is yours.
Purple and White Grapes
Some may call red grapes purple grapes (and others may refer to them as black grapes), but they are actually all under a broad category of red grapes, just depends on where you’re from and what you’re used to. The same for white or green, white grapes are green grapes.
Concord Grapes
Concord grapes are part of the grape varieties called slip skin grapes, which means the skin easily pops off when squeezed. The skin is edible, and so are the seeds. Classified as a red grape, the name comes from Concord, Massachusetts, where they were actually discovered and cultivated by Ephraim Wales Bull who planted thousands of species before producing what we now know as the Concord grape.
Seeds or Seedless
Seedless grapes are so much popular than seeded grapes for obvious reasons, but how do they grow? After all, don’t plants need seeds to reproduce? Farmers actually slice branches from their vines & put them in water to make new grape plants. Seeded grapes may be more of a pain to eat if you have to keep spitting out the seed, but that is where the healthiest part of the fruit is. Enjoy the benefits of melatonin by eating your grape seeds. And you don’t have to chew them, you can swallow them whole the same way you would the seeds in Concord grapes.
So go ahead and relish in the tasty goodness of grapes, from fresh grapes to raisins, jelly to wine, green to red, they are all great gifts of the earth.