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Functional Food What is That, Ask First

...added vitamins and minerals, a pasta enriched with grape seed extract claiming to protect the retina in diabetics and cranberry chewing gum to prevent gum disease. So it goes and constantly expanding. But experts are warning that the actual benefits of these foods could be dubious and hence suggest consu...

Australian Grape Glut Dries Up as Drought Bites

...intage will be one of the leanest in years and the grape glut is drying up fast. For winemakers like Ter... to about 65 percent of the country's viticulture, grape growers labour under severe water restrictions. "Even if we have got rain, production in the Murra...

Indian Wine Major Indage Celebrates 25th Anniversary

...quise de Pompadour and participated in events like grape stomping and foot massages with wine. The candles, cakes, ice creams, chocolates, beauty products and even the food that was served had wine in it. "It's awesome. I ordered chicken at one stall and before serving it to me, they poured wine on it....

New Health DrinkCoffee

...offee contains more antioxidants than a serving of grape juice, blueberries, raspberries and oranges. Dietician Chiara Trombetti, of the Humanitas Gavazzeni institute in the northern Italian town of Bergamo says Coffee can be good for you and the stronger, the better. But drinking too much coffee is...

Bobby Robson Diagnosed With Cancer for Fifth Time

... in August 2006 when he had a tumour the size of a grape removed from his brain. He successfully fought cancer three times previously. He had a golf ball-sized tumour removed from his lung in May 2006, while in 1995 he was discovered to have a rare form of skin cancer behind an eye. Treatment for that invo...

India is Uncorking Its Wine Market: Expert

...of fine wine. The minister of agriculture is a big grape farmer and has gone on record to say that wine should be treated as a food item, like in Italy and Spain. But he had to backtrack due to the anti-alcohol lobby and the wine continues to be subject to VAT at 20 percent," Arora said. However, he adde...

Pink Grapefruit Juice is Rich in Nutrients Than Other Juices

...r than orange, white grapefruit, pineapple, prune, grape and apple juices. And, to top it all, pink grapefruit juice also provides potassium, folate, thiamin and magnesium. "(It) is an excellent source of vitamin C. It also provides potassium, folate, thiamin and magnesium, as well as certain carotenoi...

New Health Drink—Coffe

...offee contains more antioxidants than a serving of grape juice, blueberries, raspberries and oranges. Dietician Chiara Trombetti, of the Humanitas Gavazzeni institute in the northern Italian town of Bergamo says Coffee can be good for you and the stronger, the better. But drinking too much coffee is...

Red Wine Good for Nothing, Say Indian Doctors

...wine will do wonder for heart. Why don't they take grape juice instead?" Chopra, who is also the chairman of the World Heart Academy, said. M.C. Mishra head of surgery at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here said: "People drink alcohol, smoke five packets of cigarettes but never bothe...

Fruit and Vegetable Diet 'could Prevent Asthma'

...ect against wheezing and allergic rhinitis. Red grape skin contains high levels of antioxidants as well as resveratrol, a potent polyphenol, known to curb inflammatory activity. Children who ate nuts - a rich source of vitamin E - at least three times a week were less likely to wheeze. Vitamin E i...

Emboldened Warriors-Cancer Fighting Foods

...y boosting immune system — Chemicals obtained from grape seed extract show promise in animal studies as a w...er, mice that were fed diets supplemented with the grape seed compounds, a group of antioxidants called proanthocyanidins, showed a reduction in tumor number...

Drink Red Wine to Stay Young

...entists have found melatonin, a substance found in grape skins protect cell from age-related damage, said t...is a naturally-occurring hormone not only found in grape skins but also in a whole range of other foods such as onions, bananas, rice and cherries. Scienti...

Grape Juice ‘Good’ for Heat

...rasbourg suggests that// drinking certain types of grape juice can have the same protective effect against ...The researchers say that both red wine and certain grape juices contain high levels of antioxidative polyphenols, which blocks the production of a protein li...

Lead With a Poisonous Electron Shield

...hought to have been caused by the concentration of grape juice// in lead containers. Though the introduction of lead-free gasoline has reduced damage to the environment, the annual production of lead continues to increase worldwide because lead is still used in batteries, glass, and electronic component...

A Heart-Felt Valentine: Red Wine and White Wine May Be Just as Healthful

... to the conventional belief that red wines and red grape juice are the most heart healthy. Dipak K. Das, ...ponsible for the cardioprotective abilities of the grape flesh, to the best of our knowledge, our study provides evidence for the first time that the flesh o...

Berries Boosts Brain Power: Study

...berry, cranberry or strawberry extracts or concord grape juice. SRI...

Drinking Red Wine Cuts Risk of Colorectal Cancer

...ntent of wine is related to the length of time the grape skins are present during the fermentation process. 'The concentration is significantly higher in red wine than in white wine, because the skins are removed earlier during white-wine production, lessening the amount that is extracted,' explained Josep...

Inhibition of Colorectal tumor growth by Grape seed extract

...of colorectal tumor growth by certain chemicals in grape juice in both cell cultures and in mice. The anti-...ar mechanism of the inhibition of cancer growth by grape seed extract was also established in this study. In tumor cells, the availability of a critical prot...

Kids From Low-Income Groups Could Enhance Their Nutrition By Choosing Better After School Snacks

...nie and milk was replaced with animal crackers and grape juice; Wednesday's snack of a peach cup and graham crackers was replaced with peanut butter crackers and an apple. Cassady and her colleagues compared the nutritional content of the new menu of 17 snacks with that of the old menu of 15 snacks. They...

White Wine is Equally Good for Heart as Red Wine

... 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 ...

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