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The mouth-puckering bouncer that makes red wine taste like serious business.
means A bitter, astringent plant compound that binds proteins, giving wine, tea, and unripe fruit that drying grip.
from From tannin, French for the substance used in tanning leather — same molecules that turn animal hide into your jacket also dry out your tongue.
Leather connectionTans hides by binding skin proteins tight.
Why it driesGrabs saliva proteins, leaving mouth parched.
Found inGrape skins, tea, oak barrels, walnuts.
Antioxidant rolePolyphenols that protect plants and possibly you.