Health benefits of grapes

The many health benefits of grapes make them an excellent choice for a more satisfying, healthier diet. 

Fruit is an essential part of your daily diet supplying essential vitamins and minerals that contribute to overall good health.

Here are some reasons you should add grapes to your diet.

• Aids in weight loss

When you are striving for weight loss, the goal is to eat foods that are low in energy density, like grapes. Eating a greater volume of lower calorie foods can help you feel full on fewer calories.

 Research shows that eating flavonoid-packed fruits like grapes can help maintain a healthy weight and even lead to weight loss.

• Controls blood sugar and diabetes

Grapes do not tend to highly elevate your blood sugar when eaten, nor do they highly increase insulin levels- so diabetics can eat grapes. 

Since high insulin levels cause insulin resistance, choosing foods with a lower insulin response rate, like grapes, can help prevent you from developing the insulin resistance characteristic of type 2 diabetes.

• Colon health

In a small study of colon cancer patients, those who consumed a grape-enriched diet were able to inhibit certain genes that promote tumour growth in the colon.

 This benefit was observed in the healthy tissue of the subjects’ colons, not the cancerous, indicating a potential role for grapes in helping to maintain a healthy colon.

• Reduces risks of heart disease

The polyphenols found in grapes have been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease, and support a healthy heart by promoting relaxation of blood vessels to help maintain healthy blood flow and function.

• Eye health

Research suggests that regular grape consumption may play a role in eye health by protecting the retina from deterioration. 

Specifically, a grape-enriched diet resulted in a protective effect on retinal structure and function.

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