French Paradox is a term that first appeared in a paper published in the Circulation in 1993.
- A study of the correlation between cholesterol and saturated fat intake and heart disease mortality in 40 countries found that French people with the same intake index had a mortality rate about four times lower than Finnish people, describing it as a "French paradox.
- However, as research on useful ingredients of wine accumulates, what is newly known is that viniferin is more contained in wine and has stronger antioxidant efficacy than resveratrol. Therefore, the real protagonist of French paradox is viniferin
