{"id":1554,"date":"2016-06-23T16:45:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T15:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blanville.com\/en\/?p=1554"},"modified":"2016-06-21T16:15:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T15:15:33","slug":"how-wine-sulfites-became-the-bad-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blanville.com\/en\/magazine\/how-wine-sulfites-became-the-bad-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"How Wine Sulfites became the &#8220;Bad Guy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few weeks ago, we discovered this article about sulfites, which is, we think, very helpfull to understand what is exactly the sulfite, and why people consider it as a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Sulfite, bad for health ?<\/h2>\n<p>The main reason is people take care about what is in their drinks &amp; food, which is a good thing. But, they can be misled because of lake of knowledge, and influence of medias. For example, it seems like sulfites could give a headache, but there is no scientific evidence that links sulfur with headaches&#8230;.<br \/>\nMost current health concerns related to added sulfites stem from the fact that a small percentage of the population\u2014estimated at less than one percent in the U.S ans most of whom are asthmatics.<\/p>\n<h2>Sulfite, bad for bacteries !<\/h2>\n<p>On the other side, in terms of wine, sulfur provides two important functions : it is an antimicrobial to prevent the growth of yeast or bacteria, and also prevents oxidative spoilage, when a wine is exposed to too much oxygen.<br \/>\nIn our opinion, sulfites are like wine. If we use it with parcimony, this is no dangerous. That is\u00a0why we use sparingly !<\/p>\n<p>And if you drink enough wine to have a headache, maybe sulfites are not the first reason !<\/p>\n<p>Please, read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eater.com\/drinks\/2016\/5\/6\/11607794\/wine-sulfites-good-bad\">The full article<\/a> to make your own opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few weeks ago, we discovered this article about sulfites, which is, we think, very helpfull to understand what is exactly the sulfite, and why people consider it as a bad thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wine"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How Wine Sulfites became the &quot;Bad Guy&quot; 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