Robert Camuto, author of Corkscrewed, dispels some of the myths about those demons of the wine world, sulfites. Your red-wine headache could be caused by any number of ingredients.

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You've seen it. You've probably talked about it. The dreaded, "Contains Sulfites," warning. What does it mean? Nothing. All wine contains sulfites. Sulfites mean sulphur, a naturally occurring process of fermentation. Now, it's true, sulphur has been added to wine for a couple of thousand years as a preservative to keep the wine whole and to prevent it from oxidizing. A lot of people say, "I get a headache. It must be the sulfites." But you know there could be many other causes, particularly if you're drinking not very good wine. In fact, wine is one of the few products that doesn't have to list everything that's inside of it and many industrial type wines have a lot of flavorings, aroma, added acid, etc. that could be causing your headache. So get off the case of the sulfites.

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