Delicious and healthy cultivated grapes

The cultivated grape is considered a large deciduous, but always green liana. It has long, knotted shoots and whiskers. The color of the bark on old trunks is usually brown, from which a long strip of crust separates. The leaves of the grapes are alternate, petiolate, have 2 falling stipules, they are in the form of a circle, a pentagon or similar to a bud. The leaves themselves have a deep notch of various shapes, along the edge a serrated leaf, sometimes naked, and sometimes fluffy with small hairs on the seamy side of the leaf. It blooms in large numbers with small flowers, they are green in color, five-lobed, located in loose or dense panicles, are often fragrant. The fruits of the grapes are juicy, the berries are green or red-blue in color, a small white bloom is inherent on top. Berries grow in large and small bunches, they are also different in density. The seeds are in the shape of a pear or an egg; one berry contains up to seven seeds. It usually blooms in late spring or early summer, and bears fruit in late summer or early autumn.

There are about seventy types of grapes that grow in zones of warm and temperate climates.

The place where the cultivated grapes will grow must be flat and suitable for mechanization. The row spacing of vineyards should be no more than 3 meters, depending on the formation of bushes and soil and climatic conditions. The most optimal planting time is in the autumn and in the spring in April.

The use of cultivated grapes for medicinal purposes

This berry has a versatile effect on the human body, it is also a diuretic, choleretic, debilitating, tonic, and also lowers the acidity of gastric juice and enhances metabolism. They also use the berry for depletion of the nervous system, with bronchitis and nephritis, it is used as a general tonic for tuberculosis and urethritis. In addition to all this, grapes are an excellent nutritious product, one kilogram of grapes gives us seven hundred calories.

Berries have long been used to treat diseases as well as for dietary purposes.

It is easy to treat grapes. To begin with, you need to take small doses, that is, for the first three days, two hundred grams of berries are consumed three times a day, then the number of berries must be increased, thereby you will come to a result of up to two kilograms of consumption per day. This treatment usually lasts three to six weeks. At the same time, keep in mind in advance that you do not have a single hole in your teeth, since the acids contained in grapes can destroy them even more. It is also necessary to check and urine analysis for sugar. Remember that this berry has contraindications, it should not be used if a person suffers from diabetes, peptic ulcer disease, heart failure and hypertension.

People use a decoction of dried grapes with the addition of a small amount of onion juice to it, this mixture is good for coughing with bronchitis. Also, powder from dried leaves is used for uterine bleeding. They are very effective in the treatment of purulent wounds and ulcers, for this it is necessary to apply fresh grape leaves to the wound. In the course of experiments, it was found that grape oil reduces the concentration of cholesterol lipids in the blood serum.

Cultural grapes: use in food

For fresh consumption of grapes, table varieties of this plant are usually used. The grapes can be divided into 3 groups: these are white, red and black.These varieties are large in size and very sweet and tasty, usually purchased for dessert.

There are also wine grape varieties, from such varieties dry and fortified wines and cognac are made. A large number of varieties are also used for juicing, which is similar to fresh grapes. Fresh seedless grapes can be canned with other berries and fruits, as well as make jam from them.

The grapes are also dried and dried in the sun or in the shade. From what variety you used when drying, you can get a very useful product of 3 types, these are raisins, raisins and cinnamon. Usually raisins are made from grapes that are seedless, and raisins are obtained from grapes that have seeds. In order to get cinnamon, use the smallest seeds without seeds for this.