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Priceless tiny tots: raisins

In a fruit-conscious diet, dried fruit gained by desiccation processes, like raisins, can provide diversity and alternative to raw fruit. It is also recommended that you take it once a day in muesli, cakes or even as raisin wine, or maybe "just because" - from your hand, for example.

The wonderful effects of fresh grape (vitalizing and health preserving, cleansing, thirst-quenching, hydrating, anti-ageing, anti-viral and disinfecting, anti-allergenic and anti-infection and both internally and externally curing effects, to name a few) do not vanish when it is dried, as raisins. What is more, these little "berries" contain in a concentrated from all the power that sunrays stuffed into them when they were fresh.

Invaluable fruit sugar

Its sugar content comes from the fructose which quickly breaks down. Among the numerous types, golden raisins are the sweetest and most light in colour. MazsolaIt is good to know, however, that it is more advised to eat the darker (the darkest) kinds - within bounds for curing purposes, since the darker the colour of raisins, the higher the mineral substance and vitamin content. The less seeds a type has, the more expensive it is.