White wine also protects heart

Whoever wants to minimize the amount of damage to the heart due to a heart attack, should drink one or two glasses of red wine daily. This is what many doctors say these days. Red wine is made from unpeeled grapes, so the skin of the grape is also used. The grape skin contains resveratrol, a chemical that protects the heart by neutralizing harmful substances.

White wine is produced from peeled grapes, so it does not use the skin of the grape and misses this protecting substance. But researchers at the University of Connecticut say that the pulp of the grape also contains healthy substances. And thus also white wine contains them.

The scientists gave a group of rats white wine and other groups another alcoholic beverage or plain water. The rats who drank white wine suffered far less damage from a heart attack than the rats who got other fluids to drink. White wine contains tyrosol and hydroxytyrosol, which have the same beneficial effects as resveratrol according to the researchers.

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