WITH little proof, sulphur dioxide (S02) is universally blamed for those headaches consumers get when they drink red wines. The truth is, despite umpteen studies and tests, scientists are no closer ...

Sitting at her dinner table with friends, Angela Waters took a sip of red — a South American Malbec — and instantly felt her face flush. ‘Within minutes my face began to swell, my cheeks puffed up and ...

Sometimes when drinking white wines I immediately get a blistering headache. A sip or two is all that it takes. Oddly, I have had a pinot gris from the Okanagan which was fine, but when purchasing a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Have you ever wondered about the message “contains sulphites” that appears on almost every bottle of wine? And ...

I do, and I get the question often. But I must lead with a warning: For people with severe sulphite sensitivity, the only solution is wine abstinence. The correct word, by the way, is "sensitivity".

As I climbed the steps that lead up from my local beach, I had a sudden revelation: I wasn't wheezing and nor was I breathless. Normally, after such a climb, I'd be feeling it in my lungs, breathing ...

For those who are sensitive to sulphites, low-sulphur wines can open up your options I’m sometimes surprised that there isn’t more interest in no- and low-sulphur wines. After all, there is a ...

Mary Berry has come under fire after a batch of the TV chef’s branded horseradish sauce was recalled from Tesco. Though the jars bore best before labels stating September 2018, they did not indicate ...

When many people reach for a glass of wine, it’s quite often after a particularly stressful day, or to unwind with friends - but rarely do I think about what is inside it. For some wine drinkers, ...

Researchers have proposed alternatives to the use of sulphites in potatoes, one of the main preservatives currently used and which, among other properties, prevents the browning that appears after ...

Government food inspectors have found sulphites in over one third of meat products tested from butchers known to have bought the preservative, even though it is illegal to add the product to meat.