Wine benefits without the wine. (Lifelines).While wine's supposed health benefits continue to be a focus of many media reports, there are many ways to get the health-protective properties of wine into your diet without any alcohol. Remember, there's nothing in wine that isn't in grapes, except for the alcohol. So add a variety of red and purple table grapes to your diet. Also, most berries, plums, currants, and other deep-red or deep-blue fruits are excellent sources of anthocyanin anthocyanin red-colored agent in fruit. phenols found in wine. And quercetin quer·ce·tin n. A yellow powdered crystalline compound produced synthetically or occurring as a glycoside in the rind and bark of numerous plants, used medicinally to treat abnormal capillary fragility. Also called meletin. , another phytonutrient phy·to·nu·tri·ent n. A substance derived from plants, such as a pigment, that is beneficial to health, especially one that is neither a vitamin nor a mineral. in wine, is actually more abundant in apples with skin. Onions, whole buckwheat buckwheat, common name for certain members of the Polygonaceae, a family of herbs and shrubs found chiefly in north temperate areas and having a characteristic pungent juice containing oxalic acid. Species native to the United States are most common in the West. , oranges, and grapefruits provide some too. A healthy dose of colorful fruits and vegetables provides many other health-protective nutrients not found in wine. (Environmental Nutrition) |
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