Wine is a drink that everyone is familiar with. Wine has many functions. Drinking it occasionally has good health effects on the human body. Wine should be drunk in moderation, and it is not appropriate to drink it. Drink more, alcohol is still more harmful to the human body. What kind of drink does wine belong to? Who shouldn’t drink it? Let me introduce it to you below.

1. Properties of wine

Is wine acidic or alkaline?

Wine is an alkaline food.

Although wine tastes sour when drunk, it also contains acidic substances such as tartaric acid, oxalic acid, and citric acid. However, after wine is digested and metabolized, the final product contains a high content of mineral salts, which is weakly alkaline. Therefore, from a nutritional point of view, wine is an alkaline food.

Is wine cold or hot?

Wine is a warm food.

Although wine is fruit wine, its alcohol content is not very low. Alcohol is a hot food, and the water content in wine is relatively high. Therefore, from an attribute point of view, wine is a warm food. It is very suitable for people with cold constitution to drink and can regulate body balance.

2. Who is not suitable for drinking?

(1) People with warm constitution

Wine is a warm food. It is not very strong, but it will also increase some heat in the body after drinking it. If you have a warm body constitution, increasing heat is not good for the body, especially for people with a hot body constitution, which may cause internal heat.

(2) People with allergies

Grapes themselves contain some allergic ingredients. Many people with allergies cannot eat grapes, and fruit wine made from grapes also contains Some alcohols are also one of the allergens, so people with allergies are best not to drink wine.

(3) Anemia patients

Wine contains a lot of tannic acid and tannin substances, which will inhibit the body's absorption of iron in food. If you are an anemic patient, iron Large deletions can worsen anemia symptoms.

3. Precautions for drinking wine

1. Wine cannot be eaten with seafood. The sour and astringent tannins in wine will reduce the taste and nutritional value of seafood.

2. Wine should not be eaten with high-protein foods. The tannic acid and protein in the wine will undergo a chemical reaction, and the resulting substances are complexes that are difficult to digest and absorb. In mild cases, they may cause indigestion, and even severe cases. Gastroliths appear.

3. Wine cannot be eaten together with Sprite. Sprite contains a lot of carbon dioxide. Eating it together will promote the absorption of alcohol, making it easy to get drunk and even cause obesity.

4. How to identify the deterioration of wine

1. Look at the color: There are generally three colors of wine: purple, red, and brown. The darker the color, the longer the wine will last. It also tastes better; the color of expired wine is orange-red, with the edge tone as the main observation point. It is not recommended to drink wine of this color.

2. Look at the transparency: The more common wines in life have been filtered, so the transparency is better, while the spoiled wine will generate some impurities and the transparency is not high, but pay attention to the unfiltered wine It cannot be identified using this method.

3. Look at impurities: The wine on the market has been filtered, and generally there will be no impurities. Even if there are impurities, they are only grape seeds and grape skins. Expired wine will breed a lot of fungi, and white bacteria will appear. The group is on the surface of the wine, and there are also floc-like impurities in the wine.

4. Taste: Good wine has a rich aroma and fruity taste, red wine also has an astringent taste, while spoiled wine has a sour smell and has a light taste after entering the mouth. Hardly.