Why Red Wine Is Healthy

Wine is not only a liquor with excellent taste and aroma, but also a healthy food and beverage that has been used as medicinal ingredients since ancient Greece and Egypt. As modern people's diet has become meat-centered, the incidence of cardiovascular disease has increased, and interest in red wine is growing as it is known to be effective in preventing related diseases.

Red wine is healthy because of the polyphenol content in wine. Polyphenols act as anti-cancer, antioxidants and lower cholesterol in the blood. Recently, interest in resveratrol has been increasing among polyphenols.

This is the anti-cancer and anti-aging effect of resveratrol. Resveratrol is originally a defense substance that plants secrete to protect themselves when attacked by fungi. When this substance is secreted, syrtuin, also known as a "long-lived gene," is activated, alleviating the toxicity of harmful substances that act as carcinogens in the body and preventing gene deformation. It also inhibits abnormal cells that have already entered the stage of cancer.