JAPAN DIARY PIECE
September 1st, 2003
BY MARK ROWEJAPANESE scientists have developed a beer that they claim acts as a facial treatment to keep you looking young at heart. The beer - which should be drunk rather than applied to the skin - has been produced by the Akita Research Institute of Food and Brewing. Marketed in Japan as "facial treatment beer", the brew is rich in hop polyphenol, which is thought to suppress an enzyme that causes wrinkles and slack skin, and is also known as a health-promoting ingredient in red wine. In the ordinary beer manufacturing process, little polyphenol is retained in ...
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