Researchers have discovered that consuming a small glass of red wine daily can help cure diabetes.

As per research report, strong "super-food" compounds detected in the red wine can work in addition to a daily dosage of medicine for sufferers of Type 2 diabetes.

Researchers found that red wine antioxidants could be just as effectual as a daily intake of a combative medicine.

The polyphenols, biologically active compounds found in red wine, work in the same way as the drug rosiglitazone, which is now prohibited.

The study was conducted before the ban on rosiglitazone applied.

Boffins from Vienna's University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences discovered that consuming 125ml red wine daily was sufficient to provide Type 2 diabetes sufferers their daily amount of medicine.

The researchers stated that the suggested daily dosage for curing Type 2 diabetes utilizing rosiglitazone is between 4mg and 8mg.

The research group said that 100ml of the examined red wine was the same as 1.8-18mg of rosiglitazone.

The results of the research have been released in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Food and Function.