All about...#37 - Grapes

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🍇ALL ABOUT GRAPES🍇

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🍇Introduction🍇

Grapes are one of the most popular fruits of all time, known for their purple color and sweet taste.  They come in a wide variety of drinks and foods, whether it's wine, a Gatorade bottle, or raisins. Without grapes, lots of our history of food would've been different, and many would have been devastated. This blog will tell you all about grapes! Enjoy!

Fresh grapes

🍇Uses & Products🍇

Grapes can be used for a variety of products, from their liquid form to their dried form, or even just as they are. The two main uses of grapes are for those that are eaten raw and wine. However, different cultivars (often of the same species) are used for each of these purposes. Wine grapes have thick skins which increase the desired taste and aroma of wines, while raw-eaten grapes tend to have very thin skins and no seeds, which makes them easier to consume.

There are also sugary and artificial types of grape products that are becoming popular as the modern world goes on to the 21st century. Lots of people have been enjoying grape popsicles and grape-flavored juices and drinks.

Most dried-grape products, such as raisins or currants, also use seedless grapes. As time goes by, raisins turn smaller and have a somewhat pruney pattern. Other fruit preserve products, such as jam and jelly, use similar grapes as wine, such as concord grapes. This is because the concord variety has a more "fruity" taste. It is for this same reason that non-alcoholic grape juice will often also come from concord grapes.

Wine
Raisins

🍇History🍇

The Middle East, specifically Mesopotamia, was the first place where grapes were grown. This dates back to around 4,000 - 6,000 BCE. However, it was not until around 3800 BCE when wineries started appearing around the area, with its first location in Armenia. The industry of grapes and wine soon spread throughout the region, popping up in places like Turkey and Iran. The Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and Phoenicians all had a strong wine culture and cultivated it regularly. An important event of grapes occurred when the Vikings settled in Newfoundland, Canada, and named the area Vinland, after the grape vines they produced there. When the exploring age occurred, the Europeans brought wine to many regions of the world. Grapes and their products are a big part of life today.

Wine cup from Silesia
Grape exporting wagon

🍇Nutrition/Taste🍇

Grapes are very sweet and healthy for you. Raw grapes contain 81% water, 18% carbohydrates, and 1% protein. They also have lots of Vitamin K; micro nutrients exist too.

🍇Where they are grown🍇

Grapes can grow in most climate zone across the world, however most climate zones are not ideal for growing consumable grapes. You may notice wild grape vines growing in the weirdest places, though these plants cannot be harvested for juice, wine, or edible grapes.

When it comes to suitable areas to establish a vineyard, things such as soil, sunlight, water, and even wind make a world of difference. Countries in various parts of the world lead in grape production. Typically, the top wine-producing countries are also top grape-producing countries. The following countries produced the most grapes (in metric tons) in 2018:

  1. China - 13,397,012
  2. Italy - 8,513,643
  3. United States - 6,890,970
  4. Spain - 6,673,4819
  5. France - 6,198,323
  6. Turkey - 3,933,000
  7. India - 2,920,000
  8. Argentina - 2,573,311
  9. Chile - 2,500,000
  10. Iran - 2,032,031
Grape production in 2016

🍇Fun Facts🍇

  • Grapes come in more colors then just purple. They also come in green, pink, yellow and white.
  • It takes about 2.5 pounds of grapes to make one bottle of wine.
  • There are more then 8,000 types of grapes, which come in 60 different species.
  • Concord grapes are one of the most common and tough grapes.
  • Grapes are technically a type of berry, similar to blueberries.

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Aug 27, 2021
Coming up next: 38-Seattle Space Needle, 39-Mars, 40-Sri Lanka. I will be asking someone to collab for the Mars blog. Comment yes if you please. Enjoy!
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Aug 27, 2021
No
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Aug 27, 2021
Nice! I can maybe do a Collab on Sri Lanka if you want :)
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Aug 27, 2021
Very informative, as always :3
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Aug 27, 2021
It was a pleasure to join you for this, Mr. Blogger
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Aug 27, 2021
Raisins are weird.
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Aug 27, 2021
Hmm... do you have plans for the 41st All About?
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Aug 27, 2021
Yum
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Aug 28, 2021
Way too many emojis, people on older devices will only see a load of boxes
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I don't like too many emojis