A South African company recently introduced the world's first range of organic Vinetherapy Ice Creams, using the same fruit flavours that are used as descriptors for wine. The ice creams contain grapeseed extract, which offer antioxidant properties.
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A range of new ice cream flavours
According to a press release issued on behalf of the ice cream developers, all good upmarket wines are described using fruit. These include cherry, black cherry, black currant, strawberry, blueberry, liquorice, anise, mint, chocolate, guava, gooseberry, vanilla, peach, apricot, pear, fig and honey.
Now this same approach towards using fruits as wine descriptors, is being brought to the arena of ice cream, elevating ice cream into a whole new stratosphere of flavours, which include:
Vinetherapy Chardonnay Grape with Fig & Honey - Reserve 2004
Bold, ripe, smooth and creamy. A real mouthful of the Chardonnay grape. Its tiers of ripe pear, fig, and honey flavours have resulted in a beautifully crafted ice cream, with a rich butterscotch aftertaste that still has all those delicious flavours chiming in. It is irresistible!
Vinetherapy Chardonnay Grape with Peach & Pear 2004
Bright with fruit and supple in texture, this harmonious white velvety smooth ice cream has a generous dose of peach and pear flavours and a hint of honey on the finish. This ice cream is "very good, an ice cream with special qualities," and this Chardonnay fruit offers virtues without flaws. Stellenbosch is known for a full-bodied, ripe style of winemaking, and that heritage is reflected in this ice cream's "supple" texture, "generous" fruit flavours and "hint of honey". You'll remember it for the rest of your life.
Vinetherapy Cabernet Sauvignon Grape with Black Cherry & Raspberry
The Vinetherapy Cabernet grape is rich with deep, dark berry aromas. This ice cream is wonderfully complex with lush black cherry, black raspberry and cassis. The lingering juicy finish is complete as an exotic dessert.
Vinetherapy Blackberry & Cherry Pinotage Limited Edition 2004
The Vinetherapy Pinotage grape is wonderfully intense. This ice cream has rich black fruit with a velvety texture and a lingering berry finish, which will delight your palate. This ice cream is full of berry and black cherry and has a lovely cocoa finish.
The Vinetherapy range of ice creams was developed in Camps Bay, in collaboration with Sinnfull, the ice cream emporium, and the Renewal Centre, the developers of the Vinetherapy range of products.
Vinetherapy skin care products
The Vinetherapy skin care products have high concentrations of grapeseed polyphenols that are potent antioxidants proven to be effective in treating wrinkles and ageing.
The product range is the culmination of extensive research and development in which the finest viticultural grapes were used to develop specially crafted cosmoceutical ranges. The Renewal VineTherapy products base ingredients have been carefully selected and prepared with care over the years, by the world's best viticulturalists.
The by-products from these world-class grapes, which have been harvested from around the Stellenbosch and West Coast wine areas, consist of grape seeds and husks, which form the foundation of the health and skincare range.
The range, which is based on Pinotage grapeseed extracts, consists of products developed to treat the ageing process both internally and externally.
Under attack from free radicals
Normal metabolism releases destructive oxygen molecules called free radicals into the body. We are all exposed to additional destructive free radicals from pollution, smoke, alcohol, contaminated water, sunlight, stress and tension on a daily basis.
It is now a well-known fact that free radicals are largely responsible for the ageing process by being implicated in cardiovascular diseases, memory loss, vision loss, arthritis, certain cancers and sports injuries. Free radicals can be described as the cause of "biological rusting". Eighty percent of skin ageing is due to the effect of free radicals.
The working of free radicals can be combated by the use of antioxidants, which reduce oxidative damage. Research has proven that grapeseed extract is the best antioxidant available. Studies have proven that it is a more powerful reducer of free radical-induced cell damage than vitamin C, E, and Beta-carotene. Some of the biologically active flavonoids found in red grape seeds possess up to 20 to 50 times more antioxidant activity than vitamins C and E respectively. (Health24)
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