Why Does Wine Make Your Mouth Feel Dry?
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You know that feeling you get when you bite into an unripe pear or banana, munch on too many walnuts, or sip red wine, and your mouth gets dry, rough, and puckery? That feeling is your mouth temporarily turning into leather. We make real leather through a long and complex process, with a central step called ""tanning"", in which we soak animal skin in water along with plant material. If we took skin off an animal and didn’t tan it, hungry bacteria would release enzymes that cut the skin’s main protein - collagen - into digestible bits, essentially causing it to rot. But when we tan the skin before it can rot, chemicals called tannins leak from the plants and bond to the collagen, blocking the sites the enzymes could cut, and gi...
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You know that feeling you get when you bite into an unripe pear or banana, munch on too many walnuts, or sip red wine, and your mouth gets dry, rough, and puckery? That feeling is your mouth temporarily turning into leather. We make real leather through a long and complex process, with a central step called ""tanning"", in which we soak animal skin in water along with plant material. If we took skin off an animal and didn’t tan it, hungry bacteria would release enzymes that cut the skin’s main protein - collagen - into digestible bits, essentially causing it to rot. But when we tan the skin before it can rot, chemicals called tannins leak from the plants and bond to the collagen, blocking the sites the enzymes could cut, and gi...
