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Health care: What are the benefits of drinking red wine?
Red wine can stimulate appetite.

The bright colors and clear and transparent posture of wine are pleasing to the eye; Pour it into the cup, and the aroma of fruit and wine is fragrant; When tasting, the tannins in the wine are slightly astringent, which promotes appetite.

2. Red wine has diuretic effect.

Some liquors contain high contents of potassium tartrate, potassium sulfate and potassium oxide, which has diuretic effect, can prevent edema and maintain acid-base balance in the body.

3. Red wine helps digestion.

In the stomach, 60- 100g wine can increase the output of normal gastric juice by 120ml (containing free hydrochloric acid 1g). Wine is conducive to the assimilation of protein; Tannin in red wine can increase the contractility of smooth muscle fibers in intestinal muscle system. Therefore, wine can regulate the function of colon and has certain curative effect on colitis.

Sweet white wine contains potassium sorbate, which contributes to the secretion of bile and pancreas. Therefore, wine can help digestion and prevent constipation.

4. Red wine has the function of beauty and anti-aging.

Polyphenols such as anthocyanins and tannins in wine, especially dry red wine, have the function of scavenging active oxygen. Many components in wine can act as antioxidants in human body. Antioxidants can act on reactive oxygen species in many ways.

The simplest method is to remove the active substance. Salicylic acid, benzoic acid and their metabolites in wine belong to active oxygen scavengers. Another important way to eliminate reactive oxygen species is to provide it with a hydrogen ion through antioxidants, so that it can be removed by reduction reaction.

Gallic acid, catechol, quercitrin, anthocyanin, dihydroxy benzoic acid, etc. Reactive oxygen species in wine can be reduced and removed.