Grape Juice: A fragrant gift

Grapes and grape juice is traditionally appointed with loss of strength, after suffering a severe disease, with metabolic disorders, exhaustion, pulmonary tuberculosis. Healing properties of grape juice were well known to doctors of antiquity, they used it as a medicinal remedy and curative.

What is in grape juice 

Grape juice is valued mainly due to presence of the simple sugars - glucose and fructose, which are easily digestible and facilitates the rapid filling of the energy body and evocation. Simple sugars contained in grape juice, also have antioxidant properties, that is, destroying harmful free radicals formed during the redox reactions, it protects from the decay of some protein molecules in cells of various tissues. Grape juice contains anthocyanins - pigments of biologically active substances dissolved in the cell sap, which also have antioxidant properties.

In addition, grape juice contains large amounts of organic acids (tartaric, malic acid), salts of potassium and magnesium - that what makes it useful in cardiac diseases. It also contains calcium, phosphorus, iron, magnesium, cobalt. There in the grape juice and vitamins - ascorbic acid, beta-carotene (from it in the body is formed Vitamin A), B vitamins.

How does grape juice on the human body 

Grape juice has long been used to uplift forces after heavy diseases, exhaustion and severe physical exertion. Simple sugars are included in it, are quickly absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract and enter the blood and from the cells of tissues as a source of quick energy, making people feel energized. except of glucose and fructose contained in grape juice, improve liver function, filling its cells with additional energy. Older people have grape juice activates the brain and improve their intellectual capabilities. When neuroses, it helps to relieve the state of irritable weakness. Especially a lot of simple sugars in white sweet grapes.

Grapes lot of pectin, which is deposited on the surface of its toxic metabolic products (metabolites) and remove them from the body. This is very useful for various chronic diseases which are accompanied by a metabolic disorder with the formation of harmful metabolites.

Detoxify the body and anthocyanins - they save the body from free radicals, preventing the disintegration of cells and enhancing the immune system that does not develop immature (tumor) cells. The best antioxidant effect have red grapes.

The positive impact of the grape juice has on the heart - the potassium and magnesium, which is contained in it, the recovery of the heart muscle (myocardium).

Grape juice also has a mild laxative and diaphoretic action, the latter quality is used for colds - warm grape juice lowers the temperature. In addition, he is able to increase the amount of mucus in the airways, that is has a slight expectorant.

Grape juice drink with liver and kidney diseases, anemia, tuberculosis, gout, pleurisy, asthma and other diseases. But there are also contraindications for the use of grape juice - is, first of all, diabetes, and obesity, pus in the lungs (eg, abscess), gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, the propensity for flatulence (bloating), caries many teeth.