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Re: Resveratrol
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Carolyn Ehle <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 27 May 2009 21:39:23 -0400
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Juanse Barros wrote:
> The safe way to proceed is to feed propolis to the bees. Propolis contains
> reveratrol as well as other antioxidants.

Even safer(and luckier), have the right plants growing in the area. I 
have observed the bees gathering the resins from the skins of our wild 
muscadine grapes, one of the known resveratrol sources.  It would be 
interesting to know our propolis content of that and other phytochemicals.

Carolyn in the western piedmont of South Carolina

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