Drink white wine, forget about sun damage!
New Spanish research shows that white wine consumption is a better protection against harmful sunburns.
The researchers from the University of Barcelona and the Spanish National Research Council found out that grapes or grape derivatives contain a compound (flavonoids) that may protect skin cells from damaging ultraviolet radiation.
The flavonoids in grapes work to prevent the chemical reaction that kills skin cells and leads to sun damage. When UV rays hit your skin, they activate "reactive oxygen species" (ROS) which then oxidize big molecules like lipids and DNA. This makes particular enzymes active and they kill skin cells. But these flavonoids work to reduce the formation of the ROS's in skin cells that were exposed to UVA and UVB rays.
Marta Cascante, a biochemist at the University of Barcelona and leader of this research, notes that this finding may help to improve sun-shielding drugs and cosmetics.
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