Health effects of non-alcoholic beer?!
Answers: there are no preservatives or sugar listed as ingredients on non-alcoholic beer can, only barley malt, water, hop - does that mean that the drink is as good as ( except for the lack of the kick in the taste - beer lovers forgive me ) any other healthy beverage?
Keep in mind that beer, like other alcoholic beverages, is regulated by the TTB (Tax & Trade Bureau) division of the ATF (assuming you're in the States).
Governments do not consider it food, therefore it does not fall under the same requirements for listing ingredients as food items are required to do.
If it's a macro-brew NA, it still has a TON of preservatives.
And there are PLENTY of health benefits of drinking beer.
If you're interested, email me, as I have no patience to list them all here.
I'd stick to real beer, myself.
Cheers!
I managed a liqour store for six years in the 80's. I finally asked a guy who bought non-alcoholic beer why he drank it. (seemed like a waste to me, no alcohol!). He told me his doctor told him to drink it for the natural laxative effect of beer. Digestion!
None, it tastes like beer with just a little or no hint of alcohol.
Another drink i would recomend to kick beer is iced tea.
And then get to something else, cause iced tea has caffeine.
Why drink it at all? I thought about having one one time, and thought why do I need to drink this I'll have something like juice or pop
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Beer and wine both contain sugar regardless of what the label says. They both start out as little more than sugar water and no matter how long the fermentation goes there's always residual sugars.
As for health benefits, there's really nothing set in stone. There's plenty of research which suggests that beer could be healthy in moderation. Some of that is related to the alcohol and the rest of it is related to various vitamins and minerals which I'm nearly positive most commercial beers (including NA beers) have had filtered and pasteurized out to negligible quantities. My guess is that NA beer is about as 'good' or 'bad' for you as brown water.
A Japanese study done in 2005 showed that non-alcoholic beer has the same cancer fighting/preventing benefits of real beer. It also has almost as many antioxidants. What it lacks it the beneficial blood thinning effect of the alcohol that real beer has. Not to mention that alcohol is a naturally occurring antibiotic.