Theravadins also believes that the Buddha allowed the monks to choose a vegetarian diet, but only prohibited them from eating human, elephant, cow, horse, dog, cat, lion, tiger, bear, leopard, and slug flesh.
White table grapes. A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus Vitis. Grapes can be eaten fresh as table grapes or they can be used for making wine, jam, juice, jelly, grape seed extract, raisins, vinegar, and grape seed oil. Grapes are a non-climacteric type of fruit, generally occurring in clusters.
There are more than 8,000 varieties of grape. Fossilized leaves, seeds, and stems of grapes, some of them perhaps 40 million years old, have been found throughout the Northern Hemisphere. The grape is a plant native to the north temperate zone. There are about 60 species and more than 8,000 varieties of grape. The mature fruit of most species can be eaten fresh or dried. Dried grapes are known as raisins. All varieties, when crushed, can be made into some kind of wine or juice.