Red or white? Which wine causes a worse hangover – science has answered – Health
The degree is the same, but the consequences are different. Which wine is more likely to reward you with morning hangover? This is what the researchers say, Sports.kz reports with reference to Doctorpiter.ru.
We choose the lesser of two evils. Chemists from the University of California at Davis decided to find out which wine causes a weaker hangover – red or white. And white wine won this argument.
Scientists have learned which substances in red varieties lead to headaches and other unpleasant consequences the next morning. It turned out that red wines contain a lot of quercetin, which affects the body’s ability to properly process alcohol.
“Quercetin is a phenolic compound found in the skins of grapes. There is much more quercetin in red wines than in white wines, since the skins of red grapes remain longer in the fermentation process,…