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Article: NASA research could remedy 'red-wine headache'
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- November 2, 2007
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The Associated Press
BERKELEY, Calif. - The effects are all too familiar: a fancy
dinner, some fine wine and then, a few hours later, a racing heart
and a pounding headache.
However, a device developed by University of California, Berkeley,
researchers could help avoid the dreaded "red wine headache."
Chemists working with NASA-funded technology designed to find life
on Mars have created a device they say can easily detect chemicals
that many scientists believe can turn wine and other beloved
indulgences into ingredients for agony.
The chemicals, called biogenic amines, occur naturally in a wide
variety of aged, pickled and fermented foods prized by gourmet
palates, including wine, ...