White wine is as healthy as red

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

American scientists argue that white wine is no less healthy than red wine. Previously, it was believed that red wine owes its healing properties to the substance resveratrol in it. However, researchers have found that white wine also has a healing effect.

It is believed that it is resveratrol, which is contained in the skin of grapes, is the cause of the so-called "French paradox" (high consumption of fatty foods and low rates of heart disease) in conditions of moderate consumption of red wine.

It's not just red wines that can do this, says molecular biologist Deepak Das. According to him, "the berry itself can have the same effect as its rind."

Deepak Das and his colleagues gave laboratory rats white or red Italian wine, in human equivalent about one or two glasses a day, while others received a chemical called polyphenols. Polyphenols are believed to be healthier than wine.

White wine made from peeled grapes does not contain resveratrol.

Among all laboratory rats that had heart attacks, animals that were given wine or polyphenols received the least heart damage compared to rats that were given water or strong drinks. Their blood pressure and aortic blood flow also plummeted.

According to Lionel Opie, director of the Hutter Institute for Cardiac Research in Cape Town, South Africa, Das's findings provide compelling evidence that white wine protects lab rats from the effects of heart attacks. However, he points out that similar experiments on dogs have shown that red wine has an advantage over white.

But Das expects similar studies to prove the value of white wine in the near future. According to him, "we can safely say that one or two glasses of white wine a day will have the same effect as red wine."