Guest guest Posted February 29, 2008 Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 In the U.S. it varies by state. For example, adding sugar is legal in Oregon, but not legal in California.Tom Hi Tom, I thought I had this resolved a long time ago, but know Im confused from what you are saying. Does the fact that it is illegal to add sugar in calif.,mean, that it is illegal to add if they dont put it on the label???? or its illegal to add sugar at all???? The reason I ask is because last year a friend who is a sales man for a wine distributor gave me wine that he considered very dry, hence, safe for me to drink for SCD. I drank the wine and a few day late was ill with old UC symptoms. I called the distributor in Calif. and asked about the sugar content in the wine. They said that there would be sugar in that wine. So it turned out that my friend had been wrong. I thought that the Italian and French wines never had sugar added. I have recently moved and had to find another wine to replace the one I had been buying. My new one is a Chianti, it is Da Vinci ,Tuscana Chianti. It is a product of Italy, imported by Gallo Brothers, I believe. If anyone knows if this is no good for the diet please let me know. All The Best, LouDelicious ideas to please the pickiest eaters. Watch the video on AOL Living. Serge Duguay wrote: > Its actually quite the opposite. In most European countries it is > illegal to add sugar to the grape must. It is legal to do so in Canada > and the U.S. In the U.S. it varies by state. For example, adding sugar is legal in Oregon, but not legal in California. Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 29, 2008 Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 KitCabSource@... wrote: > Hi Tom, > I thought I had this resolved a long time ago, but know Im confused > from what you are saying. > Does the fact that it is illegal to add sugar in calif.,mean, that it > is illegal to add if they dont put it on the label???? or its illegal to > add sugar at all???? It isn't ever legal to add sugar in California. In those places such as Oregon where it is legal, it isn't mentioned on the label. At least I've never seen any mention. > The reason I ask is because last year a friend who is a sales man > for a wine distributor gave me wine that he considered very dry, hence, > safe for me to drink for SCD. I drank the wine and a few day late was > ill with old UC symptoms. > I called the distributor in Calif. and asked about the sugar content > in the wine. They said that there would be sugar in that wine. So it > turned out that my friend had been wrong. The distributor could be right that there is sugar in the wine. What we care about it the kind of sugar. When harvested, wine grapes are extremely sweet, over 20% sugar. But the type of sugar in the grapes is SCD legal. A sweet wine made in California would still have some of that SCD legal grape sugar. Unless the winery broke the law and added sugar, the wine should be OK. Because of the alcohol taxes, wine production is monitored quite closely by government agencies. There are a lot of other things in wine that might have set off your UC symptoms. I've been growing wine grapes since 1974 and obviously am around a lot of wine. For over a decade I didn't drink any wine because of the fragile condition of my gut. Like many other SCD legal foods, different people at different times will have problems with things that are usually OK for most of us. > I thought that the Italian and French wines never had sugar added. I > have recently moved and had to find another wine to replace the one I > had been buying. My new one is a Chianti, it is Da Vinci ,Tuscana > Chianti. It is a product of Italy, imported by Gallo Brothers, I believe. > If anyone knows if this is no good for the diet please let me know. It is important to make the distinction between laws about adding sugar, and how common the practice might be. In Italy it is against the law to add sugar. For the most part, it is legal to add sugar in France. But it is probably not common. Most French wines will be SCD legal, but you have no way of knowing the status of any particular wine unless you know it is dry (has no residual sugar). Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 29, 2008 Report Share Posted February 29, 2008 At 08:10 PM 2/29/2008, you wrote: The reason I ask is because last year a friend who is a sales man for a wine distributor gave me wine that he considered very dry, hence, safe for me to drink for SCD. I drank the wine and a few day late was ill with old UC symptoms. Lou, but realize that grape juice has quite a bit of natural sugar in it. I couldn't touch grape juice (or wine) for several years into SCD. If I did, I had D within hours. And somehow, diluting the wine the way we do fruit juices is NOT what I want to do in a restaurant! — Marilyn New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001 Darn Good SCD Cook No Human Children Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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