Various studies have shown that drinking a little red wine can be good for you – but not everyone wants to drink alcohol. So the Pavese Pharma Biochemical Institute in Pavia, Italy, is developing tablets that contain all the non-alcoholic goodness in a glass of wine (WO 03/099040).
They start with vinasse, the liquid waste of mainly antioxidant polyphenols left in wine after the ethyl alcohol for use in hard liquors has been distilled off. Sugars, amino acids and a preservative are added and the mix is filtered and poured into vials. Freeze-drying and compacting the mix leaves a tablet…
