On the raclette, do you put white wine or red wine? According to science, it would be better to drink something else to digest well…
In general, faced with a squeegee, two teams oppose each other: the one that drinks white wine, and the one that drinks red wine. But imagine that from a health and digestion point of view (which is an element not to be overlooked when you swallow so much melted cheese!) neither of the beverages is ideal… But so what to drink with raclette? A Belgian professor, Fabrizio Bucella, director of the Inter Wine and Dine school of oenology, gave a response to the Huffington Post.
Surely you have already noticed thatafter the raclette, your mouth was dry and really very thirsty ? This is not surprising, firstly because the dish is fatty, but also because the cheese is high in sodium, which is a dehydrating ingredient. So even if white wine and red wine are pleasant to drink while eating a raclette, they contain ethanol which has the same disadvantage as sodium, it makes you thirsty. Above all, you should opt for a particularly hydrating drink. Like water for example?
Black tea to fight dehydration
Not quite : you need black tea, according to Fabrizio Bucella, which quenches thirst well (even if it is not a hydrating drink) and which is good for digestion, according to the expert. It would also seem that the agreement between melted cheese and this type of tea works well from a taste point of view. Another option offered, always without alcohol, lemon diluted in water, to add acidity to the fat in the dish, he explains.
If the raclette is in season and particularly pleasant to taste when it is cold, be careful not to overdo it. In addition to the risk of dehydration, which is easy to avoid, sodium intake should be moderate. It should ideally not exceed 2 grams per day, according to WHO recommendations, in order to reduce blood pressure and therefore the risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke and coronary heart disease in adults.