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Is grape juice as healthy as red wine for the heart?

I don't like wine of any kind but I want to protect my heart. Why doesn't red grape juice have the heart healthy sign on the bottle like the regular grape juice? I would think that red grape juice would be healthier for the heart than the regular since red wine is recommended for the heart.

I am sure that grape juice (real grape juice) contain vitamin, mineral and other molecules that are necessary for the protection of the heart. http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=40. However it is a very good reason why wine made from red grapes is recommended over grape juices made from red grapes.

The skin of the red grape is what carries the active heart protective molecule - Resveratrol. In grape juices the skin is squashed and thrown out. In some grape wine the skin is included in the fermentation of the wine. The skin is not included in the processing of white wine and grape juices. Hence some wine would carry the benefits of the grape skin, while the juices would not.

Resveratrol is present in high concentration in only some grapes and so not all wines has the benefit of resveratrol; not even all red wines have this benefit. This is because it is filtered out during processing. This important molecule is in high concentration in only the sad, unhealthy red grapes. Why so? Resveratrol is the molicule that protects sad grapes from heat, bad weather, or drought.

You may get more information about resveratrol from: http://www.symmetrydirect.com/wconnect/wc.dll?jws~hpage~JGRANT~1
From the home page click on View Genesis Vidio - this will give you the name of one of the wines with resveratrol. It also gives some information on resveratrol.

Again from the home page click on Training Center.
Scroll down to Product Training - Genesis DVD
Click on play - listen to the first two third of the DVD. (you may if you wish stop at the product comparison)
Here you will get information on why grape juice and white wine would not have resveratrol, how resveratrol protects the heart, control cholesterol and increases HDL

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