Grapes

📖 In short

Grapes are small, juicy, smooth-skinned fruits that grow in bunches on a climbing plant called a vine. They come in many colors: green, red, black and purple. We eat them fresh, dry them into raisins, and drink their juice.

🤩 Did you know?

A bunch has between 6 and 300 grapes.
Most grapes grown in the world are European grapes.
Grapes have been grown for thousands of years.
Grapes are also made into grape molasses, a thick sweet syrup.

🔎 Find out more

🌟 The climbing vine

A vine has thin tendrils curled like springs, which it uses to cling to wires, trees and arbors to climb up. In summer people sit in the shade of the arbors.

🔍 Big bunches

One bunch can have a few grapes or hundreds. Farmers pick the bunches when they turn sweet at the end of summer.

💡 A raisin

When grapes are dried in the sun they lose their water and become little wrinkly, very sweet raisins that keep a long time, and we put them in rice and desserts.

🎯 Vine leaves

We don't just eat the grapes! In Arab countries rice and meat are rolled in tender vine leaves and cooked into a delicious dish called “stuffed vine leaves”.