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st.helier wrote:

>>OPC is in fact the main ingredient in wine extract and is very
>>beneficial to human body in avery aspects.

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> What a load of bunkum - what is "wine extract" - what is "distilled" thru
> my body after drinking several bottles?
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> Oligomeric Proanthocyanidins (OPC) are extracts from grape seeds, french
> maritime pine bark as well as red wine, cranberries, blueberries,
> bilberries, tea (green and black), black currant, onions, legumes, parsley,
> and the herb hawthorn.


aka tannins. Yes, OPC and tannins are one in the same. If they're so
good for me, I guess that I'll have to eat more banana peels and drink
more over-steeped tea! ;-)

Mark Lipton