How much alcohol is in kefir: debunking myths

The answer to the question: "is there alcohol in kefir???" will be definitely positive. Of course there is. To be more precise, it cannot be absent, since this drink, unlike, say, yogurt, is produced by mixed fermentation - fermentation of fermented milk and alcohol.

Background

In the 80s of the last century, this was even the basis for a horror story about how Western detractors, in alliance with no less insidious backstage monsters, introduced Soviet people to alcohol from childhood with the help of kefir-based baby food...

However, as it turned out later, the avid fighters against the people's favorite dairy product heard the bell, but did not know where it was.

How many percent alcohol in kefir

With proper factory production based on the use of modern technologies, the alcohol content in kefir ranges between 0.02 and 0.06 percent. For comparison: the ethanol content in apples is 0.1 percent, and in grape juice the presence of alcohol reaches 0.35 percent.

On the other hand, the concentration of alcohol in our blood and liver ranges between 0.03 and 0.15 percent. Accordingly, to consider alcohol in kefir as a threat to the human body is more than frivolous.

In fairness, it should be noted that under certain conditions, the level of alcohol in the fermented milk product of interest can indeed increase dramatically, reaching almost 4 percent. Thus, with the authentic wineskin and rennet method of production used in the North Caucasus, the historical homeland of the drink, this figure could reach a full power unit...

If you keep a modern factory product at a temperature of 18-30 °C for more than four hours, you will inevitably get the same notorious 4 percent; however, the drink itself will finally and irrevocably sour.

Morning kefir after alcohol

According to lovers of long alcoholic feasts, which is shared by modern doctors, the Caucasian drink is an excellent hangover remedy. It removes various post-feast toxins from the body, replenishes the reserves of essential minerals and offers a pleasant lightweight bonus in the form of those very few hundredths of a percent of ethanol.

A few words to drivers

A person behind the wheel is not so much concerned with the question of where the alcohol in kefir comes from, but rather with the problem of how to avoid trouble when meeting with the traffic police after drinking this drink. Fortunately, if you follow some rules, the driver does not have to prove to the meticulous wand-bearers that he is not a camel.

It is not recommended to drink a drink that has been out of the refrigerator for more than an hour before the trip.

You should stop drinking kefir 15 minutes before you get behind the wheel; otherwise, it will definitely show.

On the day of the planned trip, do not drink more than three liters of your favorite product, otherwise alcohol will end up in your bloodstream.

Update: 25.07.2016

Category: Other alcohol