What products contain alcohol?
Posted in Beer, Wine & Spirits | Asked by PaperMAN | 2012-02-18 19:02:02 | (4) answers

On this wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abvit says Fruit juice contains 0.1% of "Naturally occuring" alcohol. What does this mean? What kind of juice? What other normal products have alcohol in them?

by Hansel      2012-03-03 22:02:05

The government allows up to 0.5% alcohol in beverages that are not labeled alcoholic. There are a couple reasons for this. You mentioned that you saw some fruit juice that has .1% alcohol. Whenever you have a sugar or starch exposed to air, Naturally occurring yeast in the air causes fermentation to begin. It won't produce much alcohol if left refrigerated. If you were to leave it out and uncovered for a couple weeks, it would obviously spoil but it would produce much more alcohol. The other reason is natural carbonation. Before synthetic carbonation was invented, soft drinks were carbonated by slightly fermenting the beverage in a closed container. They did this because fermentation naturally produces carbon dioxide. The resulting beverage had a negligible amount of alcohol as a byproduct of fermentation.

by Hansel      2012-03-02 22:02:09

The government allows up to 0.5% alcohol in beverages that are not labeled alcoholic. There are a couple reasons for this. You mentioned that you saw some fruit juice that has .1% alcohol. Whenever you have a sugar or starch exposed to air, Naturally occurring yeast in the air causes fermentation to begin. It won't produce much alcohol if left refrigerated. If you were to leave it out and uncovered for a couple weeks, it would obviously spoil but it would produce much more alcohol. The other reason is natural carbonation. Before synthetic carbonation was invented, soft drinks were carbonated by slightly fermenting the beverage in a closed container. They did this because fermentation naturally produces carbon dioxide. The resulting beverage had a negligible amount of alcohol as a byproduct of fermentation.

by Eric      2012-02-20 11:02:08

Alcohol is present in every plants. When glucose is converted without oxygen, as it goes through fermentation, alcohol is one of its bi-product along with CO2. I imagine that most companies that produce juice would separate the alcohol within them. Other normal product would be beer and liquor lol. Yeast is among those that produce alcohol.

by Eric      2012-02-20 06:02:20

Alcohol is present in every plants. When glucose is converted without oxygen, as it goes through fermentation, alcohol is one of its bi-product along with CO2. I imagine that most companies that produce juice would separate the alcohol within them. Other normal product would be beer and liquor lol. Yeast is among those that produce alcohol.