00:00No, sulfites in wine do not give you a headache.
00:02People often blame sulfites in wine for giving them a headache after drinking.
00:06Sulfur is a preservative, it's an antioxidant, and it's used in small quantities in wine
00:10to keep the color from turning very dark and to maintain fresh flavors.
00:14Sulfur is used in a lot of different food products, particularly dried fruit.
00:17It makes it so that apricots look like this instead of this.
00:20An average glass of wine contains 10 milligrams of sulfites,
00:24but a handful of dried apricots, the bright orange ones, contain over 110.
00:28That's 11 times more.
00:30Sulfite sensitivity is real, but it does not manifest as a headache.
00:34It's respiratory or allergy-like symptoms.
00:36If wine leaves you with a pounding headache, it's not the sulfites.
00:39The culprit is actually the alcohol itself.
00:41Drink some more water.
