Does drinking 0% alcohol beer leave alcohol in your breath?

Many businesses now produce non-alcoholic beer (0.0 alcohol content). Does drinking this type of beer still result in alcohol in the body? (Hung, 35 years old, Ho Chi Minh City)

Reply:

Simply put, non-alcoholic beer is beer that has had the alcohol removed or has been brewed to contain less alcohol than the permitted limit.

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), beverages can be declared non-alcoholic as long as they do not exceed the 0.5% alcohol by volume limit.

Non-alcoholic beer is produced from the same ingredients as traditional beer, the only difference being that non-alcoholic beer needs to undergo a process to remove all the alcohol before it becomes a finished product. Non-alcoholic beer contains some nutrients such as protein, especially soluble protein, carbohydrates, and some vitamins such as B1, B2, PP, and minerals.

Non-alcoholic beer, with an alcohol content of 0.0%, will not cause intoxication and no alcohol will be detected in your breath, regardless of how much you drink.

Removing alcohol from beer makes it healthier, but that doesn't mean you can drink non-alcoholic beer excessively. Most non-alcoholic beers offer little nutritional value and are primarily carbohydrates.

It's important to remember that non-alcoholic beer can still contain some alcohol, and the 0.0% to 0.5% alcohol content you see on the label is not a guarantee of the actual alcohol content.

Doctor Dinh Tran Ngoc Mai
Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, University Medical Center of Ho Chi Minh City

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