SusanHS Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Hello All, I'd like to try to reintroduce wine on Day 31 since it also happens to be my husband's birthday. I know that wine has 2 components that I could potentially be sensitive to: alcohol and sulfites. I really dislike other forms of alcohol, so I'd like to avoid testing with a "non-sulfite" alcoholic beverage. I've read that the recommendation is to drink organic wine because it's sulfite free, but during my latest trip to Trader Joes, I noticed that all of the organic wines contain "naturally occurring sulfites". So my question is: are these naturally occurring sulfites any different from added sulfites? Thanks!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlaccini Posted May 21, 2015 Share Posted May 21, 2015 Yes. Most wines and vinegar will have naturally occurring sulfites. This means the sulfites occur naturally and you will be hard pressed to find a wine without them. However "added sulfites" means that the sulfites are added in order to preserve the wine - these are not naturally occurring and are very often problematic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SusanHS Posted May 21, 2015 Author Share Posted May 21, 2015 Ok, so what I'm hearing is added sulfites are the problem, not naturally occurring sulfites. Does anyone know why added sulfites are problematic while naturally occuring aren't? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators ShannonM816 Posted May 21, 2015 Moderators Share Posted May 21, 2015 For Whole30 purposes, the rule is to avoid added sulfites, but naturally occurring ones are okay. However, the truth is that, for someone who is actually sensitive to them, it does not matter whether they are naturally occurring or added, they'll be sensitive to them regardless. I found this article that has some explanation, and it also lists some sulfur-free wines, if you want to try to go that route. The other thing you could do is try your favorite wine, and see how you react. If you have no particular reaction, great! You can have that wine occasionally. If you do have a reaction, go back to W30 eating for a few days, and then try something like dried fruit with sulfites, and see how you react. If it's the same reaction you had from the wine, then sulfites are probably the culprit. No reaction to the dried fruit? Go back to W30 for a few days, and then have some alcohol that isn't that wine and see what happens -- maybe try a different wine, since you don't like non-wine alcohol -- red vs white, or just a different variety/brand/whatever of wine, since there are so many possibilities, and see what happens. Maybe there's something in one wine that isn't in another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SusanHS Posted May 21, 2015 Author Share Posted May 21, 2015 Thanks, Shannon. This experimentation technique makes a lot of sense. That's what I'll do! I'll report back with the results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RubytheSugarDragonSlayer Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 @SusanHS DH and I are wine making hobbyists, its fun! Potassium-meta-bisulfite is often used to stabilize the wine and stop the fermentation process. There are some wines that use other means of killing the yeast, I'm just not familiar with them. ShannonM816 is so right and makes great points about experimenting. Sulfites do occur naturally with the grapes and will vary in amount and intensity from grape to grape, wine to wine, and winery to winery and probably vintage to vintage. I am confident your wine is out there, you are in for an adventure to find it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators ladyshanny Posted July 10, 2015 Administrators Share Posted July 10, 2015 I'm in the boat of experimenting with red wine also because "something" in some wines gives me a massive allergy attack the next day. I always thought experimenting with lots of different wines would be SO much fun.........but when you wake up feeling insanely crappy the next day it's a lot less fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmhudson33 Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 What kinds of reactions are you all having to wine? I had two small glasses of white wine the other night and within the hour I was so congested, I had to leave the movie twice to go blow my nose. Eyes red and watery, etc. Misery. Do you think that is a sulfite reaction or alcohol? I had the same reaction (less severe though) to a beer last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators ladyshanny Posted August 31, 2015 Administrators Share Posted August 31, 2015 What kinds of reactions are you all having to wine? I had two small glasses of white wine the other night and within the hour I was so congested, I had to leave the movie twice to go blow my nose. Eyes red and watery, etc. Misery. Do you think that is a sulfite reaction or alcohol? I had the same reaction (less severe though) to a beer last night. Some red wines give me a massive allergy attack, usually the next morning. There are red wines that do not do this and I feel fine during and after. Since there are a couple that I know I can tolerate I've never investigated any further regarding what it is specifically that I am reacting to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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