Can the hangover artifact really make you "not drunk in a thousand cups"?

After winter, many people like to drink alcohol to drive away cold, relieve muscles and revitalize the blood
.
Drinking, some people are used to drinking a few glasses and getting slightly drunk; Some people seek to be hearty and have a good drink; Others are greedy and afraid of getting drunk, so they take a few "hangover pills"
before drinking.

Drinking, what kind of "opening method" is the safest and healthiest? Can the so-called hangover "artifact" really make people "not drunk in a thousand cups"? The liquor consumption tips jointly created by the Sichuan Provincial Market Supervision Bureau and the Sichuan Food Inspection and Research Institute can give you the most simple and clear answer
.

How to buy liquor

To purchase prepackaged liquor, you should choose formal places
such as supermarkets or tobacco and alcohol specialty stores.
Wang Qiao, senior engineer of Sichuan Food Inspection and Research Institute, reminded consumers to pay attention to the following points when purchasing:

First, look at the label
.
From the label, you can intuitively understand the product name, aroma, alcohol content, ingredient list and other information
.
According to the new standards for the liquor series implemented on June 1 this year, if there are non-grain raw materials and/or food additives in the label ingredient list, it means that it is not a real liquor, but a formulated wine
.

Experienced buyers can also pay attention to the explicit implementation standards
of the product.
For example, if the implementation standard of product label identification is GB/T 10781.
1-2021, or the marking implementation of GB/T 10781.
1 and produced after April 1, 2022 (inclusive), the label should also identify the product type as "solid method liquor", if there is no labeling or incorrect identification, it is recommended to choose
carefully.

Second, look at the packaging
.
Pay attention to check whether the bottle seal is tightly packaged, and whether the bottle body has cracks and trachoma
.
If there are any of the above problems, the product is easy to run "degree" and loss (that is, alcohol volatilization), should be purchased
with caution.

Third, look at the liquor
.
If the product is packaged in colorless or light-colored transparent glass bottles, the bottle can be slowly inverted and observed
against sunlight or light.
The liquor should be free of suspended matter, clear and transparent, and some sauce-flavored liquor may be slightly yellow, which is also normal
.

Compared with pre-packaged liquor, bulk liquor is relatively cheap, and consumers can flexibly control the amount of each purchase, so they have a larger consumer group
.
However, compared with pre-packaged liquor, the problems of over-range sweetener and plasticizer pollution in bulk liquor are more concentrated
.
Therefore, consumers are reminded not to buy "unidentified" bulk liquor
.
Specifically, the following three points
should be noted.

Look at the qualifications
.
You should go to small liquor production workshops and bulk liquor sales outlets with legal qualifications, complete licenses, fixed places, and good reputation, carefully check whether the label content is complete, and ask for bills
.
When consuming bulk liquor in food service establishments, it is necessary to check whether there are any documents of conformity, and avoid buying or drinking bulk liquor
from unknown sources and significantly below the market price.

Look at the storage container
.
Try to avoid buying liquor containing plastic products, liquor is usually higher in alcohol, good alcohol solubility, and it is easier to precipitate plasticizers when the wine body is in contact with plastic products containing plasticizers
.
Plasticizers are not easy to excrete after entering the human body, and long-term drinking of a large amount of such liquor may affect endocrine and bring serious health risks
.

Look at the liquor
.
Bulk liquor can be introduced into a transparent bottle, and the properties and color
of the liquor can be observed according to the pre-packaged liquor.

How to drink alcohol correctly

Drink alcohol
in moderation.
The "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2022)" points out that to "control sugar and limit alcohol", adult men should drink no more than 25g of alcohol in 1 day, and adult women should not exceed 15g
.
Taking 38% vol liquor as an example, adult men should not drink more than 75mL in 1 day, and women should not exceed 50mL.

Do not drink alcohol on an empty stomach or drink rushed alcohol
.
Alcohol absorption is faster on an empty stomach, and it is easy to get drunk; Do not drink rushed alcohol, and eat more during drinking to slow down alcohol absorption
.
Some milk thistle products on the Internet, although they claim to make people "not drunk in a thousand cups", are mostly gimmicks
.
Wang Qiao, a senior engineer at the Sichuan Institute of Food Inspection and Research, explained that the ingredients of milk thistle products are mainly milk thistle extract or milk thistle extract combined with other raw materials, which does not immediately cure alcohol or increase the amount
of alcohol.
In fact, no food can make alcohol harmless, and the best way to reduce the risk of alcoholic liver disease is not to drink alcohol
.

Avoid mixed drinks
.
Do not drink "miscellaneous" wine, the composition of various liquors is different, mixed drinking is easy to get on the head, drunk, resulting in physical discomfort and slow
recovery.

Minors, pregnant women, nursing mothers and other special groups should not drink alcohol; People who "blush when drinking" should also not drink alcohol, such people may have alcoholic liver disease or even liver cancer
caused by acetaldehyde accumulation due to insufficient acetaldehyde dehydrogenase in the body.

Alcohol
consumption is prohibited during special periods such as driving vehicles, working at heights, and taking cephalosporin antibiotics.

Wang Qiao reminds consumers that drinking too much alcohol can hurt their bodies, even those who can drink it
.
Drink alcohol in moderation and don't be greedy
.

How to store liquor

As the saying goes, "ginger is old spicy, wine is the aroma of aging", but not all liquor is suitable for long-term storage
.

First of all, the esters in the wine body will be hydrolyzed with the storage time, especially low-alcohol liquor (less than 40% vol), and may also appear "watery taste" and quality due to the decrease in alcohol content due to ethanol volatilization
.
It is recommended to choose liquor above 50% vol for long-term storage
.

Secondly, the opened bottle of liquor should not be left for
a long time.
Due to the insufficient sealing degree after opening the bottle, it is easy to cause ethanol and aroma components to volatilize, resulting in insufficient aroma and quality degradation of the wine, and the liquor after opening the bottle should be drunk
as soon as possible.
In addition, when storing, try to choose a cool, dry area with a small amount of air movement
.

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Which wines can no longer be called liquor

Baijiu is China's national drink, with a production history of more than 2,000 years, along with whiskey, brandy, vodka, rum and gin (gin), it is known as the world's six largest distilled spirits
.

There are various types of liquor, which can be divided into three types: solid method, solid-liquid method and liquid method according to the fermentation process; According to the fragrance type, it can be divided into 12 fragrance types: strong fragrance type, clear fragrance type, sauce fragrance type, rice fragrance type, phoenix fragrance type, soy fragrance type, sesame fragrance type, special fragrance type, combined fragrance type, old white dry fragrance type, dong fragrance type, and fu tulip type
.

On June 1, 2022, GB/T 17204-2021 "Beverage Wine Terms and Classification" and GB/T 15109-2021 "Liquor Industry Terminology" two new standards for the liquor industry were officially implemented, and the definition of liquor was more stringent, clear and detailed
.

That is to say, as long as it is marked as liquor on the label, it must be a distilled liquor
made by steaming, saccharifying, fermenting, distilling, aging, and blending with grain as the main raw material, using large koji, small koji, bran koji, enzyme preparations and yeast as saccharified starter cultures.

The following three products can no longer be called liquor: first, non-grain wine; the second is wine with added spices; The third is wine
with non-grain edible alcohol.
These products have another name - "flavored liquor", which belongs to the formulated liquor
in the food classification.
Of course, there is no distinction between high and low liquor and flavored liquor itself, and the difference in name is only convenient for clarifying product characteristics, so that consumers can understand the choice and understand consumption
.

In addition, gold leaf substances are not food additives, can not be used in food production and operation, if you find that there is "gold leaf into wine", please call 12315 in time to complain to the market supervision department
.

At the same time, some liquor has the phenomenon of "pricing by packaging", and all provisions of GB 23350-2021 "Requirements for Limiting Excessive Packaging of Goods Food and Cosmetics" will be officially implemented from September 1, 2023 (inclusive), suggesting that consumers do not buy over-packaged liquor and practice the concept
of green and low-carbon consumption with their own actions.
(Edited by Li Chuang)