Worried about bad breath after drinking alcohol?

February 17, 2021

Worried about bad breath after drinking alcohol?

Do you worry about bad breath after drinking alcohol? 

 

You might be hurt when a family member says, “You stink!” Regarding the relationship between alcohol and drinking, is there a way to drink that is less likely to produce bad breath?

Causes of bad breath after drinking

In fact, it is not alcohol that causes bad breath after drinking alcohol, but other ingredients such as amino acids and malic acid. For example, when you drink sake, your breath smells like a ripe persimmon.

Sake contains a lot of amino acids. Wine also gives off bad breath, but wine contains malic acid and other compounds.

When you drink brewed sake such as sake or wine, what happens is that the alcohol is immediately absorbed into the body and metabolized, but the amino acids and malic acid enter the bloodstream and are not metabolized at the some time. It can be said that what drifts around in the blood without being metabolized will appear as bad breath.

So, when you drink alcohol with high alcohol purity, such as whiskey, shochu and other distilled liquors, you will not have bad breath.

Metabolism for bad breath from alcohol

In other words, bad breath is not only a problem in the mouth, but also in the bloodstream, as you can see from what I said earlier.

For example, there are supplements called SUPALIV and Twendee X. These two supplements have the effect of speeding up the metabolism of fats, carbohydrates, and proteins, making it very difficult for bad breath to appear.

In fact, there is a story of a person who took SUPALIV, ate yakiniku and drank sake afterwards. “You don’t smell any garlic today!” He was surprised when his family told him that.

This is probably because SUPALIV quickly metabolized the odor-causing substance aniline contained in garlic, and the bad breath caused by garlic disappeared. After all, the key point is how to quickly metabolize and eliminate odor-causing substances that are not metabolized in the bloodstream.

Finally.

If you are concerned about bad breath when drinking alcohol, you can suppress bad breath caused by alcohol by drinking distilled spirits.

However, there may be times when you want to have a glass of wine at a fancy Italian or French restaurant on a date, or when you want to have a sober drink of sake at a Japanese restaurant. In such cases, it is recommended to drink something that will speed up the metabolism of protein in your blood.