WITH little proof, sulphur dioxide (S02) is universally blamed for those headaches consumers get when they drink red wines. The truth is, despite umpteen studies and tests, scientists are no closer ...

Sitting at her dinner table with friends, Angela Waters took a sip of red — a South American Malbec — and instantly felt her face flush. ‘Within minutes my face began to swell, my cheeks puffed up and ...

Sometimes when drinking white wines I immediately get a blistering headache. A sip or two is all that it takes. Oddly, I have had a pinot gris from the Okanagan which was fine, but when purchasing a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Have you ever wondered about the message “contains sulphites” that appears on almost every bottle of wine? And ...

There are two ways, though I would only recommend one. I'll mention the first and most effective way merely for trivia's sake; you probably don't want to try it at home. It involves adding a drop or ...

As I climbed the steps that lead up from my local beach, I had a sudden revelation: I wasn't wheezing and nor was I breathless. Normally, after such a climb, I'd be feeling it in my lungs, breathing ...

Researchers have proposed alternatives to the use of sulphites in potatoes, one of the main preservatives currently used and which, among other properties, prevents the browning that appears after ...

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Government food inspectors have found sulphites in over one third of meat products tested from butchers known to have bought the preservative, even though it is illegal to add the product to meat.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...