Posts Tagged ‘antioxidants’

I came across a couple of articles that may be of interest to wine drinkers and winemakers. It seems there has been another study done on the health benefits of red wine. Apparently, men who smoke but drink 2 glasses of red wine per day cut their risk for lung cancer by 60%. No similar benefits were found for those that drank white wine or beer.

Could it be the presence of resveratrol? Or other antioxidants that are found in red wine? No one is totally sure but resveratrol is suspected:

“”Red wine is known to contain high levels of antioxidants. There is a compound called resveratrol that is very rich in red wine because it is derived from the grape skin. This compound has shown significant health benefits in preclinical studies,” Chao said.”

~ Science Daily

We all know that red wine can stain teeth – but did you know white wine can cause staining as well? In other news about wine, researchers decided to use cow teeth to find out what effect white wine would have on them. After soaking them for an hour in white wine, they were then soaked in tea. Because of acids in white wine, the teeth became darker than when they were soaked in water prior to the tea soaking.

Toothpaste that contains tooth whitener worked to lessen the stains. You can read more about this study, here.