White wine good for you.

It has long been said that Red wine is good for you (in moderation of course) but now for the first time, scientists have found that White wine may be equally as good for your heart as red.
One or two glasses of white wine protects the heart and lessens the damage caused by a heart attack, their research showed.
Traditionally, red wine was thought to be the only wine that was good for you because it contains resveratrol, thought to have many health benefits.
But Dipak Das, a molecular biologist at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, told New Scientist; “We can safely say that one to two glasses of white wine a day works exactly like red wine,. The team found that rats fed white wine as part of their diet suffered less heart damage during cardiac arrest, compared with animals fed only water or grain alcohol.
These benefits were similar to animals that ingested red wine or resveratrol, its wonder ingredient found only in grape skin.
The colour of wine is determined initially by the colour of the grape skin, and consequently white wines are not left on their skins during fermentation as red wines are. White wine therefore contains little or no resveratrol, which led many to pin the so-called “French Paradox” – high fat intake, but low rates of heart disease – on the consumption of red wine.
Molecular tests of the rats’ heart cells suggest that white wine protects the cell’s powerhouse – known as mitochondria.
The above was reported in Wednesday’s Daily Telegraph. I’m not that comfortable with testing such theories on living animals, but the initial results do look interesting.
Right, I’m off to have a glass of Sauvignon Blanc.