This is the last post of 2019. The second year of Science & Wine existence, time for a brief reflection. This was a great year!
This Christmas impress your family and friends with a Mediterranean Diet menu
Christmas. A time for joining the family to celebrate life. Usually these family meetings are around a table this is also a time known for an overeating behaviour. The rule should be “Moderation”. Our health depends on what we eat and if we wish celebrate Christmas for many years and in good health, one of our resolutions for 2020 must be eat healthy.
Development of a new strategy for studying the aroma potential of winemaking grapes through the accelerated hydrolysis of phenolic and aromatic fractions (PAFs)
This post reports the development of a new strategy based on the accelerated hydrolysis of reconstituted phenolic and aromatic fractions (PAFs) extracted from grapes. It was possible to identify by GC-Olfactometry and GC–MS at least 30 different odorants including lipid derivatives, volatile phenols, vanillins, norisoprenoids, terpenes, bencenoids and 3-mercaptohexanol.
Synergy between HPTLC and HPLC-DAD for the investigation of wine-making by-products
This work fits into a more general context related to the revalorization of agri-food by-products, which is extremely current for both environmental and economic reasons.
Fertility and Wine
One may well be skeptical about the claims made for the purported health benefits of wine, but beware of questioning Greeks bearing gifts, and surely nobody can, in good faith, deny the mood enhancement that moderate wine drinking can bring? True, when it is abused it can have disastrous and life-destroying consequences, especially when in conjunction with addictive tendencies. However, when consumed in sensible quantities, it can be and is, as the Greeks realized, one of life’s great pleasures.