Has, like all red wines, a high total polyphenol content, but stands apart for the predominating presence of cumarins, according to research carried out by Dr. Maria Benedetti Donati of the Department of Medicine and Pharmacology of the Istituto Mario Negri Sud, Pharmacological and Biomedial Research Center.
* In Lambrusco
Cumarins are present "in a pharmacologically significant quantity", explains Dr. Carlo Fernandez, Director of the College of Cardiological Practice of the University of Florence. Cumarins have anticoagulant properties and are used as an obligatory drug for myocardial infarct and in post-infarct treatment.
*Heart and cerebrovascular pathologies are extremely
low in Emilia due to the presence of cumarins in Lambrusco wine.
*Sources
Teresa Enrica Baccini, article in Corriere Vinicolo
Wine and Health Congress in Modena
