Grapes Harvested Area by Country

This chart shows Grapes Harvested Area by Country.

A grape is a fruiting berry of the deciduous woody vines of the botanical genus Vitis.Grapes can be eaten raw or they can be used for making wine, jam, juice, jelly, grape seed extract, raisins, vinegar, and grape seed oil. Grapes are a non-climacteric type of fruit, generally occurring in clusters.

The grape skin provide other suspected health benefits, such as: 

         1. Alteration of molecular mechanisms in blood vessels, reducing susceptibility to vascular damage.

         2. Decreased activity of angiotensin, a systemic hormone causing blood vessel constriction that would elevate blood pressure.

         3. Increased production of the vasodilator hormone, nitric oxide.

Grapes are a type of fruit that grow in clusters of 15 to 300, and can be crimson, black, dark blue, yellow, green, orange, and pink. "White" grapes are actually green in color, and are evolutionarily derived from the purple grape. Mutations in two regulatory genes of white grapes turn off production of anthocyanins, which are responsible for the color of purple grapes.