Source: RICHMOND CO. DAILY JOURNAL, 8/20/21


What do muscadines have to do with fighting cancer? An anonymous donor was curious enough about this question to donate $20 million to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem in 2015 to answer it. Researchers investigated the effects of a proprietary blend of muscadine seed and skin extracts created by the Piedmont Research and Development Company in NC. The blend is called MGE for Muscadine Grape Extract. MGE contains phenols, antioxidant compounds produced in the grape skin and seeds. Native to the southeastern U.S., muscadines contain more and different phenols than regular grapes, which are from Europe.

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