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The grape juice comparison is very renalasboe.The statement that "comparing wine/grape juice to green/black tea is ignorant at best" is ridiculous, insulting and makes the poster sound like a moron. It betrays an underlying aversion to knowledge and a tendency to blindly attack anything that doesn't naturally jive with your personal biases. You think of that as "faith," no doubt. I do not.Making no further value judgements here, and only attempting to point out a few simple facts:"Green" tea and "black" tea come from the same plant. Wine and grape juice come from the same plant.To produce black tea, the tea leaves are intentionally fermented, which causes dramatic chemical changes in the leaves. To produce green tea, the leaves are intentionally prevented from fermenting, which minimizes the chemical changes in the leaves. Isn't there just a tiny clue in the fact that when the leaves come off the live plant, they are green, and that the leaves used to make green tea are still green, while the leaves used to make black tea are in fact dark brown to black in color? That's because those black tea leaves have been fermented, while the green tea leaves have, again, been intentionally prevented from fermenting.Wine is made from fermented grapes--the very same grapes that could have been used to make grape juice instead. The fermentation process changes the chemical composition of the grapes. Grape juice is made from fresh grapes that have been prevented from fermenting.Am I the only one who sees the parallels, here?So wine is chemically quite different from the fresh grapes that it derived from, like black tea is chemically quite different from the original leaves of the tea plant that it derived from.Grape juice is chemically nearly identical to the grapes it derived from, like green tea is chemically much closer chemically to the original leaves of the tea plant that it derived from.Black tea and green tea are in fact different substances despite their common origin. Wine and grape juice are in fact different substances despite their common origin.
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Tania
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20 december 2014, 07:22:19
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