Monday, December 15, 2003

Oak Furthers Wine's Anti-Cancer Potential
Wine is good for you, but did you know that the oak barrel that holds tomorrow's red wine may be helping to prevent cancer. The secret according researchers,"Acutissimin A-- which was first discovered in the bark of oak trees. The researchers found that ingredients of red wine possess two molecules that can potentially react to form acutissimin A. During storage, the alcoholic liquid then extracts a whole bouquet of substances out of the oak barrels, indeed, when the team tested samples of red wine that had aged 18 months in oak barrels, they found two types of acutissimin compounds, A and B.
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