To protect themselves against environmental stresses plants produce an antioxidant known as resveratrol. Grapevine is perhaps the most notable producer of resveratrol. The grapevine produces large amount of resveratrol in the skins of grapes to protect them from sun damages and fungal diseases. Out of the entire natural foods wine especially red wine contains the highest amount of resveratrol as red wine is prepared by fragmenting the skin of grapes. If you consider other natural foods that contain resveratrol then peanut is by far the only answer to this search. The foods prepared from the skin of grapes contain substantial amount of resveratrol as the highest content of resveratrol is found in the skin followed by roots and seeds.



Wine is known to be a healthy drink from centuries. According to a famous roman saying (in vino sanitas) in wine there is health. The French paradox which stated that French people were less prone to heart diseases than the Americans despite having same fat intake brought wine into notice and more significantly its chief ingredient grape whose skin contains resveratrol which acts as a shield against heart diseases. Since the French consume a large amount of red wine thus it protects them from heart diseases. The French paradox study forced many researchers to experiment on the various ingredients of the red wine and after many experiments they came to the conclusion that resveratrol present in the red wine is the chief factor that protects the human heart from cardio vascular diseases.

Now let us discuss some benefits of resveratrol:

Experiments show that adding resveratrol to the diet increases the life span. Resveratrol was added to the diet of yeast, fruit flies, worms and a species of fish and amazing results were obtained as it increased the life span of all of them by 70%, 29%, 24% and 50% respectively. These results shocked doctors? world wide and forced them to conduct more experiments on resveratrol.

In obese mice fat related deaths were reduced by 31% by the use of resveratrol. The obese mice that were fed resveratrol acted more swiftly in movement than the obese mice which were not given resveratrol.

The mice which were fed resveratrol had full endurance that is 100% than those which were not fed resveratrol.

The main cause of heart attack and strokes is blood platelets aggregation which is very dangerous for the body; resveratrol prevents the blood platelets from aggregation.

The cell damage caused by radicals can be prevented from the use resveratrol.

Still no significant results have been found on humans but researchers are doing their best.