>>75026734Raisins are supposed to be better for blood sugar stuff, but they also make me feel kind of sick and I don't have diabetes. It reminds me of Robinson Crusoe. Crusoe found grapes growing in the wild on his island, and in order to preserve them he dried them out and turned into into raisins. He mentions not to eat too many because they can basically give you diarrhea.
>The vines had spread, indeed, over the trees, and the clusters of grapes were just now in their prime, very ripe and rich. This was a surprising discovery, and I was exceeding glad of them; but I was warned by my experience to eat sparingly of them; remembering that when I was ashore in Barbary, the eating of grapes killed several of our Englishmen, who were slaves there, by throwing them into fluxes and fevers.But you know in the end he ended up liking them in the end...
>But I found an excellent use for these grapes, and that was to cure or dry them in the sun, and keep them as dried grapes or raisins are kept, which I thought would be, as indeed they were, as wholesome as agreeable to eat, when no grapes might be to be had.