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[edit] Ball Lightning?
According to the wikipedia article on ball lightning, there is no mention of artificially reproducing the phenomenon in a consumer-grade microwave, with grapes or otherwise. This information seems highly questionable and should perhaps be removed... but if the information on this page is actually correct, the wikipedia article on ball ligntning itself should probably be extended.
- Yeah, is there a citation for this? I'm eating some grapes right now, and I'm tempted to try this out...
- Yishan 07:45, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
- googling turns up references to creating sparks from microwaved grapes, and a couple of pages refer to it as "ball lightning," but it doesn't seem like there's an authoritative source that refers to it as such. Jeremy Thornhill 19:50, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] An incorrect edit, but...
The last edit removes the word berries, and as an edit summary states "Grapes aren't berries." This is incorrect, grapes ARE berries, at least botanically speaking. However, the usage in this case was redundant and the article actually reads better without it, so I hate to put it back. On the other hand, I don't really like leaving an incorrect statement in the Edit History. What's Wikipedia protocol on this sort of thing?Elakazal 06:51, 19 December 2005 (UTC) I've done this many times, it does not only spark, but will creat floating balls of plasma that go above the grape, I have been also to capture it in the top of a tall glass, it changes color, like the light bulb. I've also been ablt to do so with cheery tomatoes.
[edit] Grape skins
I came here hoping to find information about any nutrients in grape skins. Anyone know anything? Specifically about eating them, not drinking it indirectly from red wines.
Im allergic to grape skins so I have a special machine that peels the skins off for me. Does that take out most of the nutrients?
[edit] Pictures overlap
The pictures overlap the list of grape species in my browser (Mozilla 1.3B for Mac OS 10.2) Tuf-Kat
- Mine, too, in IE 6.0 for Windows. -- [[User:Zoe|
- Changed it so the table is only two pictures wide instead of three. Does that work for you? Thanks. Wnissen 23:26 May 9, 2003 (UTC)
hi people im doin a project on grapes can u help me??????
[edit] Production reference
Although I can imagine believing that "grapes constitute approximately 50% of all fruit grown in the world", it remains a very surprising fact, and deserves a reference. I was unable to find one (in about two minutes of half-hearted googling). Pekinensis 22:59, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I have removed the claim. — Pekinensis 16:16, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
According to http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/foodconsumption/FoodAvailQueriable.aspx#midForm, in 2003 Americans consumed 18.4 lbs of grapes (per capita), out of a total 274.9 lbs of fruit (104.9 lbs citrus + 170.0 lbs non-citrus). So in rough numbers, grapes made up about 6.7% of the total amount of fruit consumed (in the US; per capita; measured by weight; in 2003). Now the US isn't a perfect gauge for world fruit consumption, but it certainly casts doubt on that stat! — RPT
You might what to put the claim back in. Grape are indeed probably the largest fruit crop grown in the world. The vast majority of grapes are grown for wine production and included in this is that for distillation and the production of gross ethanol. As you will note only a small proportion of grapes are used as fresh fruit. It is estimated that in 2004 alone, approximately 76.5 million hectalitres of wine was produced. adam
The FAO places grapes second in production...last year 66 million metric tons of grapes were produced. Compare that to 71 million for banana (and I believe this refers only to the 15-20% of bananas that are traded commercially, the rest being grown as a subsistence crop). So grape is big, but its not the biggest and it's not half.Elakazal 01:45, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
Grapes are juicy, smooth berries that grow on a woody vine. They are used to make red and white wine. They grow in clusters of 6 to 300 berries, can be black purple red and white. luz
[edit] Wild grapes
I added a pic of what I believe are wild red grapes, altho I am no expert. A more knowledgeable person might take a close look. --Tysto 00:51, 2005 September 5 (UTC)
The leaves look wrong and the cluster doesn't appear dense enough. Look under Vitis riparia for an example of the proper leaves. Dermar130 1:02, 2005 October 3
- I removed the image, theese are perhaps elderberries but pretty sure not grapes -- Schusch 21:17, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] grape must?
what is "grape must"?
See must.
[edit] Aussie slang
Should we add something about how grapes are australian slang for a woman with a big vagina?
[edit] Medical Claims for Grape Seed Extract
Are there any references for all these medical claims for grape seeds? Can we trim these to things that have been shown to be true and are evidence based? I suspect that grape seeds are good, or at least not bad for people. But, for example, the citation of "reducing cellulite" seems especially suspect since "cellulite" is a fashion term introduced by Vogue Magazine in the US that means "cottage cheese looking" subcutaneous fat. These sound like the kinds of claims made by dietary supplement makers that their supplements "support" the body in some specific way but do not have to be evaluated in any rigorous way.
Perhaps some of these claims have been evaluated, if so can we leave those, put proper citations in and get rid of the claims that have not been proven? It seems like a large list of wonder cures proven by "recent studies." Perhaps these "recent studies" can be cited so people can evaluate their claims for themselves.
Sbfisher 03:21, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Resveratrol
There appears to almost be an additional article on resveratrol tacked onto the end of this article. Elakazal
- I've chopped that down a bit, since it was mostly redundant with resveratrol. -- Beland 19:55, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Taxobox?!
As grapes are not a taxon, I propose removal of the taxobox. --Eleassar my talk 13:56, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
