The Telegraph recently reported that wine could make a good anti-bacterial mouthwash to fight tooth decay and a sore throat.
Italian, Prf Gabriella Gazzani and colleagues at the University of Pavia showed in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry that red wine (and less so white wine) were effective in inhibiting the growth of several strains of streptococci bacteria involved in tooth decay and some cases of sore throat.
Sounds more pleasurable than a salt water gargle!
