Are Grape Tomatoes Good for You? [Nutrients Profiled]

Grape tomatoes have a characteristic grape shape but are much smaller than regular tomatoes.

Grape tomatoes aren’t as common as cherry tomatoes and regular tomatoes in stores.

So, today I’ll explain whether grape tomatoes are good for you.

They also contain small amounts of other vitamins and minerals that are good for you.

In this article, I will provide a table that shows the amounts of the vitamins and minerals that grape tomatoes have, what the vitamins and minerals that grape tomatoes are high in are good for, and whether grape tomatoes are more nutritious than cherry tomatoes.

What Are the Nutrition Facts for Grape Tomatoes?

Grape tomatoes are high in various vitamins and minerals as well as fiber.

Various fruits and vegetables can be high in starch or high in sugar which can make them high in calories and carbohydrates.

So, here are the nutrition facts about grape tomatoes.

*All numbers are per 3.4 oz (100g), or a handful of grape tomatoes.

Interestingly, grape tomatoes do not contain any sugar. A low-carb diet is generally considered good for losing weight.

As carbs are nutrient-dense.

For example, rice, bread, and starchy vegetables such as potatoes, and sweet potatoes contain a lot of carbs which makes them very calorie-dense.

This is the main reason they make you feel quite full after eating them.

And keep you feeling full for a relatively long time compared to other foods.

Most other fruits by comparison contain very few carbs but are instead high in fiber, vitamins and minerals, and sugars which give you a burst of energy that wears off relatively quickly.

As you may know, tomatoes are the seed-bearing part of the tomato plant.

This makes it botanically a fruit rather than a vegetable.

Therefore, grape tomatoes are in fact fruits even though they have a relatively savory flavor.

Here’s a table that shows the percent of the recommended daily intake (RDI).

From the table it can be seen that the nutrients that are found in relatively high amounts in grape tomatoes are:

Each of these has different health benefits which I’ll discuss next.

Before that, I thought I’d address the topic of lectins, which are a toxin that is found in raw beans.

Which is the reason they need to be soaked and cooked thoroughly.

It’s known that tomatoes are particularly high in lectins.

However, the amounts found in tomatoes are in low enough amounts that you can eat as many of them as you like without suffering any negative effects from lectins.

I discussed this in detail in this article that explains whether cooking tomatoes removes lectins.

Grape tomatoes are technically fresh fruit.

It’s recommended by health professionals that eating a good amount of fruits and vegetables every day is much healthier than not.

But, what are the health benefits of grape tomatoes?

I’ve put together a table that shows the vitamins and minerals that are the highest in grape tomatoes.

As well as, the percent RDI of each in a handful (3.4 oz, 100g).

And the health benefits of each of the vitamins and minerals.

Various fruits and vegetables can be eaten when they aren’t fully ripe.

When tomatoes aren’t fully ripe they’re green in color. It’s somewhat common for green tomatoes to be consumed.

I discussed whether they’re good for you in this article about whether green tomatoes are good for you .

Grape tomatoes and cherry tomatoes are of a similar size.

Grape tomatoes are generally quite a bit larger and have an oblong shape, whereas cherry tomatoes are circular.

However, are grape tomatoes or cherry tomatoes better?

A full dataset of all of the nutrients found in cherry tomatoes is not available.

Currently, there is only info for the following nutrients shown in the table below.

I’ve put the nutrients side by side so you can see how the levels of nutrients differ between grape tomatoes and cherry tomatoes.

Grape tomatoes have significantly more zinc, sugar, calcium, vitamin C, and sodium.

Whereas, cherry tomatoes have more vitamin A.

All in all cherry tomatoes have a higher RDI of beneficial vitamins and minerals.

I’ve summed all of the percentages in the total in the final row.

You can see that grape tomatoes have 95.28%, whereas, 177.89%.

This is a rough measure of which is healthier overall, because it depends on your overall diet but based on the limited data set shown in the table cherry tomatoes have much more total beneficial nutrients.