1. Good Things Come In Small Packages
If you're a non-drinker yet desire the ancillary healthy benefits that surround red wine, perhaps grape seed oil is an option for you--and you won't need a designated driver if you overdo it.
Made from the seeds of grapes after the juice has been extracted for wine, the mighty grape seed oil offers unrivaled health protection. Jam-packed with antioxidants, beta carotene, vitamins C and E and selenium, grape seed oil prevents damage to your cells plus repairs free-radical damage. Grape seed extract may also be effective in preventing damage to human liver cells caused by chemotherapy medications. Grape seed antioxidants enhance your immune function, reducing your risk for infection and interfering with cancer-causing protagonists. The stars of the antioxidant protection show against heart disease and cancer are proanthocyanidins, flavonoids you'll find in almost every fruit and vegetable.
Proanthocyanidin-rich grape seed extract has been reported as beneficial in cancer prevention. Although grape seed has not been studied in humans for its anti-cancer effects, the antioxidant properties of grape seed are proven beneficial
2. The Noble Grape is Multi-Talented
The Journal of Medicine reported that the antioxidant activity of grape seed extract assisted cardiovascular health, blood sugar regulation problems, age-related macular degeneration, gastric health and inflammatory problems. Antioxidants protect your cells from free radical damage after your body digests food, and from environmental toxins, tobacco smoke or radiation. It may even improve your night vision and sensitivity to light.
3. The French Get the Grape
The belief is that consuming the polyphenols in wine protects French hearts despite their diet of rich foods. Red wines are higher in antioxidant content than white wine, which is fermented in the seeds so the antioxidants leach from the seeds into the wine.
Grape seeds are one of the few foods known that not only reduces LDL (the bad cholesterol), but raises HDL (the good cholesterol), keeps your arteries squeaky clean and lowers triglycerides, which may guard against impotency. Epidemiological evidence and preliminary human studies disclose numerous health benefits associated with these powerful compounds. Proanthocyanidins deserve their "star" attention as antioxidants that quench free radicals as well as compliment the efficacy of other antioxidants.
4. Omega-6 Essential Fatty Acid
Grape seed oil is lowest in saturated fats and one of the highest in the essential fatty acid, linoleic acid or omega-6--one of the essential fatty acids which you cannot manufacture. Linoleic acid is lacking in most people's diets. This catapults nutty-flavored grape seed oil, containing approximately 76 percent linoleic acid, to an instant supplemental and culinary addition to your disease-prevention arsenal, and it will also make you more youthful in appearance!
5. Culinary Grape Seed Oil
Grape seed oil brings out the flavor in food. It makes delightfully delicious salad dressing. Pomace, from which the grape seed oil is pressed, consists mainly of grape seeds, stems and skin. It's an organic matter used as compost and is ecologically recycled back onto the vineyards. Opt for the organic kind, if possible.
There are no known scientific reports of interactions between grape seed and conventional medications. If you are, however, taking blood thinning medications or have bleeding disorders, please do not use grape seed without the supervision of a health care provider.
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