We all enjoy a fine wine, but sometimes (right before pay day, the days immediately after pay day when the money we had goes to cover our loans from last pay day and then all the days between that pay day and the next pay day) there just isn't the money in the household budget for the fancy stuff that comes in a bottle or would get served to humans in a restaurant.
What we're trying to say is that yes, we have had cheap wine, and it turns out that the cheaper the wine the worse it is for you. Mainly it seems that we're talking about boxed wine here, but a new study from BeverageGrades, a Denver laboratory that analyzes different types of wine, found that there is plenty to be worried about in the cheapest of cheap wines.
They analysed American brands of wine, but the results were more or less the same across the board that "the lower the price of wine on a per-liter basis, the higher the amount of arsenic. Some very, very high levels of arsenic". Yes, arsenic.
Many of the bottles and/or boxes tested also came in above the Environmental Protection Agency’s limit for drinking water, and the findings were backed up by further research performed at the University of California Berkeley by Allan Smith, associate director of the Arsenic Health Effects research program. He stated that "some of them were up to three, four or five times the drinking water standard" and that this was an extremely serious issue, as arsenic poisoning from water can lead to various forms of cancer.
So, time to either cut down or start buying better wine...
Via Uproxx