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Headache from red wine? Science may finally be able to answer why
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November 23, 2023
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0:42Now PlayingWhat makes a sumptuous holiday dinner complete?
For many people, it’s the splitting red wine headache that follows soon after.
Medical researchers and wine lovers alike have tried for thousands of years to determine what causes some people to get a throbbing headache after drinking even a small amount of maroon-colored vino.
Theories abound: Some people blame sulfites, which are naturally present in wines and are added by some winemakers as a preservative.
But sulfites are also present in foods like fruits, especially dried, and soy sauce, as well as in white wines — but those aren’t typically linked to headaches.
Other experts point to histamines as a culprit, but that theory doesn’t seem to hold water (or wine): A study from the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology found that “there is no correlation between the histamine content of wine and wine intolerance.”
But a new study from researchers from the University of California, Davis, proposes that the real cause of red wine headaches is a flavanol known as quercetin.
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