Grape seed oil is good for salad dressing and grilling due to its is delicious and nutty in flavor, and mild enough to use in many recipes.Grape seed oils have high smoke point This means it can withstand high heat while cooking and will not burn as readily as other oils. This quality has made Grape seed Oil a choice of many gourmet chefs around the world.

Grape seed oils can also be used externally due to its anti aging properties. It have the ability to repair damaged tissues, and effectively moisten the skin. It can help skin retain the normal structure of epithelium cells and nerve cells via supporting the cell membranes.

People link red wine drinking with alcohol consumption but wine drinking cant be compared with alcohol consumption if we take the negative health factor of alcohol, consuming alcohol damages your liver but studies have shown us that Polyphenols in red wine can  protect livers from alcohol damage, human alcoholic fatty liver disease a condition common to those who consume alchalol in a regular basis this condition can be treated with resveratrol, a member of the grape polyphenol complex. According to the scientists, resveratrol can reduce the amount of fat produced in the livers of mice that have been fed high levels of ethanol. They found that it also increases the rate that existing liver fat is broken down. And most notably fact they discovered was that the combination of ethanol and resveratrol had a greater impact than resveratrol alone.

More than the alility of resveratrol  to inhibit the development of fat cells, it can prevent fat cells from maturing and hinders fat storage in mature cells. It also reduces the production of substances linked to the development of such obesity-related disorders as diabetes and arteriosclerosis. And resveratrol stimulates the formation of adiponectin, a protein known to decrease the risk of heart attack, but is diminished by obesity.

Grapes contain Resveratrol ( poly phenol antioxidant )which is capable of inhibiting cancer, heart disease, degenerative nerve diseases, mechanisms of Alzheimer’s disease and viral infections, most recent research has found that resveratrol, may help to prevent fat from building up in the liver, thus suggesting that it may help to protect against, or even treat, alcoholic fatty liver. Resveratrol is concentrated mostly on the skin and seeds of a grape, so please don’t avoid eating them. Grape pulp got only 1 percentage of total Resveratol of an entire grape !

Anthocyanins  is the main polyphenolics in red grapes and flavan-3-ols (e.g., catechins) are the more abundant phenolic in white varieties. Anthocyanins is concentrated on the skin of red grapes itz due to that red wines is superior in itz antioxidant properties than white grapes.

Also a grapes vitamin contents vary according to soil in which it is grown

A Special mention to grape seeds

More and more new Scientific discoveries are showing light to the wonders of grape seeds and its significant anti oxidant properties, Together with tannins, poly-phenols and polyunsaturated fatty acids, these seed constituents display inhibitory activities against several experimental disease models, including cancer, heart failure and other disorders of oxidation stress. Grape seed extracts are used in cosmetic medicines and grape seed oil is high in vitamin E.
New findings has shown that an extract from grape seeds is capable of destroying leukemia cells by forcing them to commit undergo  programmed cells death.

Grape seed extract has  been shown to be active against a number of different types of cancer cells, including skin, breast, colon, lung, stomach and prostate cancers. However, until this study it had not been tested on haematological cancers and no one had managed to find out exactly how the extract induces cell death.

Professor Xianglin Shi and colleagues at the University of Kentucky exposed leukemia cells to different doses of a commercially available grape seed extract. At higher doses the extract killed 76% of the leukemia cells within just 24 hours. Further investigations revealed that the extract appears to induce apoptosis by activating a pathway called JNK. Studies also relieved that the extract does not harm healthy cells.

Grape Wine

Grape wine got a great significance from ancinet days onwards but only recently we discovered its health benefits because it got the vitamins of grape seed and skin.

My Advice

There are seedless hybrid grapes available in the market, it may taste good, but if you are really conscious about your health then you should go for natural grapes with seeds and don t forget to eat whole grape along with crunchy seeds, if you are buying grapes that are not organic don’t forget to keep them in water for a while and after that wash them in running water before you eat..