The reason why you can't eat seafood when drinking beer, the taboos of drinking beer

When people drink beer, they often consider seafood as the side dish. In fact, you cannot eat seafood when drinking beer. Here are the specific reasons.

Reasons why you can’t eat seafood when drinking beer :

The most common explanation for why "you can't drink beer when eating seafood" is that beer contains vitamin B1, and vitamin B1 causes purine to convert into uric acid. This statement is completely unreasonable. Although the yeast used in beer production contains a lot of vitamin B1, the amount of yeast used is very small. Therefore, the vitamin B1 content in beer is very low and can be completely ignored. In addition, the absorption of vitamin B1 is also inhibited by alcohol. At the same time, the conversion of purine into uric acid is a normal metabolism and cannot be avoided by not eating vitamin B1.

Another explanation is that the metabolic products of the alcohol in beer compete with uric acid for excretion pathways, affecting the excretion of uric acid. This statement is somewhat reasonable. However, it is not just beer and seafood. In theory, drinking alcohol after eating any food with high purine content will lead to such consequences. Alcohol is an important factor in increasing the risk of gout, and it has nothing to do with whether or not you eat seafood. For gout patients, drinking alcohol and eating seafood (or various meats and animal offal) may aggravate symptoms.

Taboos of drinking beer:

It is not advisable to take medicine after drinking beer

Beer contains a certain amount of alcohol, which can interact with more than 100 commonly used drugs, some increasing the efficacy, some reducing the efficacy, and some having the opposite effect. Practice has shown that it is not advisable to take antibiotics, antihypertensive sedatives, anticoagulants, and hypoglycemic drugs immediately after drinking beer.

Beer and liquor should not be consumed together

Some people are used to drinking beer and then drinking liquor, which will strongly stimulate the gastrointestinal system and easily cause digestive disorders. In addition, drinking beer and liquor together can speed up the entry of alcohol into the blood, making it easy to get drunk. It is not advisable to drink iced beer after sweating.

When you sweat profusely, your sweat pores expand. Drinking iced beer will cause your sweat pores to shrink due to the sudden cold, stopping sweating, which will hinder the body's heat dissipation and easily induce diseases such as colds. In addition, after beer is frozen, its protein and tannic acid will precipitate, which can easily cause gastrointestinal discomfort and loss of appetite.