In 1940, Resveratrol was found in the plant roots of Veratrum grandiflorum. In 1976, it was discovered in grapes and then in wine in 1992. It is a plyphenol compound and considered a dietary phytoalexin that has many different health benefits. The Phyto in the word comes from phyton meaing plant and the alexin in the word means to defend. Therefore, phytoalexin means a plant antibiotic that is formed from a plant in response substances that are trying to enter and considered disease
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