The period of pregnancy is very, very responsible in the life of every woman. During this period, you need to carefully plan your diet, often have to sit on a special diet. However, every woman from time to time you want to treat yourself to something delicious, albeit not particularly useful. Sometimes a pregnant woman may even want to drink beer, but it is widely known that alcohol during pregnancy is categorically contraindicated. At such a time, many of them come up with the following idea: if alcohol is contraindicated, then can you use non-alcoholic beer for pregnant women?
First of all, it is necessary to understand what is non-alcoholic beer itself and by what parameters it differs from usual (except for the absence of degrees)?
Alcohol in beer is obtained naturally as a result of the activity of brewer's yeast fermenting malt sugar (maltose) into ethyl alcohol.
To produce non-alcoholic beer, several methods are used:
- Suppression of fermentation. This is possible with the use of special yeasts, which do not emit ethyl alcohol during the reaction, or when the fermentation process stops at an early stage, while the alcohol content in the product is minimal. Usually the taste of this beer is significantly different from the usual one and it contains a lot of sugar (because it was not processed by yeast), which is not very useful for the mother organism.
- Removal of alcohol from the final product. Since the boiling point of the alcohol is low enough, it is easily evaporated from the finished beer. However, in this case, its taste is not similar to the usual - this beer has a boiled flavor. Thus, this beer can be drunk with pregnant women, but you can hardly enjoy this, and the desire to drink ordinary beer will not go anywhere.
However, many people use non-alcoholic beer and say that it tastes almost identical to the usual one. What's the matter? As you can easily guess, this effect is achieved by using beer concentrates or flavors, and to preserve these substances in beer longer, preservatives are added. Which is hardly useful not only for pregnant women, but for everyone in general.
Also, not so long ago, a technology for the production of beer containing a minimum of alcohol appeared. This is the so-called membrane technology. Beer, produced with the use of this technology - a real beer, but containing a very small percentage of alcohol, only about half a percent. Only beer produced by this technology can be considered an adequate substitute for the traditional - it has completely identical to the usual beer flavor and taste. But how to distinguish beer, welded by this technology, from others?
First of all, you need to look at the composition of the drink. If it contains anything other than malt, yeast, water and hops, then this beer was made using a variety of "chemicals" and it is unlikely that it should be used, especially during pregnancy.
Also one of the acceptable options is still to drink some traditional beer. It may happen that you do not need more, especially since it is safer to drink once or twice a little a month than to drink what technology is produced by the beer.
It is highly not recommended to drink beer of any kind to those who have kidney problems or a tendency to swelling, as it can greatly exacerbate the problem.
If the kidney problems were not previously observed, then you can drink beer (although it is not recommended by doctors). By the way, in some cases, doctors recommend pregnant women sometimes take a glass of red wine.
Of course, it is necessary to remember in the diet the main rule that everything can be useful, but only if consumed in moderation! There is an opinion that the human body in general and the pregnant woman in particular can determine what it lacks, so supporters of this opinion claim that if you want, you can. However, in any case, in order to avoid possible negative consequences, it is better to consult with a doctor before drinking beer.