Wine benefits without the wine - Lifelines - Brief Article

Vibrant Life, March-April, 2003

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 phenols found in wine. And quercetin, another phytonutrient in wine, is actually more abundant in apples with skin. Onions, whole buckwheat, 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)