Several “Organic” Vineyards, Manuered And Fertilized With Special Cover Crops, Produce Organic Wine: Its Habitual Consumption Can Result Letal To Man

Abstract

It is my specific intention to demonstrate that “Organic wine”, that has imposed a crucial fashion in several countries of all over the world, letting its cost grow hawful, may be severally perilous for Human Health, since the cover crops used to manure roots of vine can contain, beside hay or trifolium, even vetch, lupins and faba vicia minor (field beans), that contain vicine, a glycoside that can drive to anemia, favism and finally, if not tempestively treated, death of the habitué of wine tasting or drinking. I have detected great percentages of vicine in the fresh young leaves, in the first unripe grapes and finally in the Organic wine itself that was manured with lupins, vetch and field beans.