WHITE WINE MAY BE AS GOOD AS RED FOR HEART

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WHITE WINE MAY BE AS GOOD AS RED FOR HEART By TPR TIMES OF INDIA - White wine may be just as good for the heart as red, says a new study. Till recently researchers had suggested that red wine contained antioxidants that were good for the heart. Grape skins are crushed along with the pulp to make red wine, but the skins are separated for preparing white wine. A group of American and Italian researchers compared the effects of feeding laboratory rats water or equal amounts of grape pulp extract, or grape skin extract for 30 days. The results published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry showed both extracts were equally effective in protecting the rats from induced heart attacks, reported online edition of health magazine Web MD. Rats fed either grape skin or grape pulp extract had significantly smaller heart attacks compared with those fed water, it said. In addition, tests showed both extracts appeared to have the same level of antioxidant activity. Link