What Wine Myths Have You Heard?

Health myths seem to creep up on a weekly basis saying eating too much of this causes a disease, but are not actually supported by any data.  Wine is also a subject of a few myths that do not have any evidence to back them up and have been proven incorrect.

One of these myths that Jennifer Fiedler mentions in “The Three Biggest Health Myths in Wine” is wine contains a high concentration of sugar. Yes, wine is made from grapes and it is sweet to the taste, but it does not always have a lot of sugar.  With the help of Dr. Andrew Waterhouse, Fiedler clears this myth when he explained that dry wines actually contain very little wine because the fermentation converts the sugar in dry wines to alcohol.

It’s easy to see where this theory may have started. Grapes have sugar. Wine is made from grapes. Therefore, all wine has sugar? Not so.

While wines that are not consisted dry do contain more sugar, these don’t compare to the amount of sugar in a glass of orange juice.  Jennifer Fiedler mentions a couple other myths one of which disproves that belief that sulfites in wine causes headache and the other’s solution just depends on your own individual health differences.

Fiedler continues to address these myths in “The Three Biggest Health Myths in Wine.”  If you hear any other myths, doing a quick search when these myths are flying around will solve the question of fact or fiction.

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