What Are the Effects of Alcohol on the Human Body?

Alcohol is a beverage we are not familiar with. However, wine is different from ordinary drinks. It is an addictive like heroin and cocaine. Countless people are addicted to drinking and cannot extricate themselves. It seriously affects the health of the family, destroys the happiness of the family, and disturbs the stability of the society. What effect does it have?

The impact of alcohol on human health

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Alcohol is a beverage we are not familiar with. However, wine is different from ordinary drinks. It is an addictive like heroin and cocaine. Countless people are addicted to drinking and cannot extricate themselves. It seriously affects the health of the family, destroys the happiness of the family, and disturbs the stability of the society. What effect does it have?

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(1) The main components of alcoholic liquor, except for providing calories, have almost no other nutritional impact on human health: acute alcoholism, anesthesia, coma, respiratory failure and even death. Studies have also shown that ethanol may cause teratogenesis.
(2) Methanol is derived from pectin in raw and auxiliary materials. During the cooking of the raw materials, the methoxy group in the galacturonic acid methyl ester molecules in the pectin is decomposed into methanol. Liquor made from pectin-containing raw materials has high methanol content, such as dried potatoes, potatoes, overripe or rotten fruits. Pectinase activity is higher in Aspergillus niger, and the methanol content in wine is often higher when Aspergillus niger is used as a saccharification starter.
Effects on human health: Severe neurotoxicity, which mainly damages the optic nerve and causes retina damage, optic nerve atrophy, vision loss, and binocular blindness. (3) A collective term for a variety of higher alcohols with longer alcohol carbon chains than ethanol. It is the decomposition products of proteins and sugars, including the effects of n-butanol, isobutanol, isoamyl alcohol, etc. on human health: fusel oil is more toxic and narcotic than ethanol, and is related to the length of the carbon chain. The older the more toxic, the more toxic are isobutanol and isoamyl alcohol. Can congest the central nervous system, cause severe headache and drunkenness.
(4) Aldehydes include formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, furfural, butyraldehyde, etc. The aldehydes are easily removed during the distillation and aldehyde removal process, and the aldehydes are mainly in the wine head.
Effects on human health: The toxicity of aldehydes is higher than that of alcohols. Among them, the most toxic is formaldehyde, which belongs to the syrup. It can denature proteins and inactivate enzymes. At high concentrations, it can produce mucosal irritation symptoms such as burning sensation. High acetaldehyde content can cause severe headaches, and acetaldehyde is also an important cause of addiction.

(5) Cyanide Hydrocyanic acid is produced by hydrolysis of cyanoside in cassava or fruit core as the raw material of wine. Hydrocyanic acid can enter the wine together with water vapor.
Impact on human health: Cyanide is highly toxic and can be killed in trace amounts. Our country's regulations: Liquor based on cassava (based on hydrocyanic acid) should not exceed 5 mg / L, and liquor based on substitutes should not exceed 2 mg. / L
(6) Lead comes from rectifiers, condensing ducts, and wine storage. The effect of lead on human health: affects cognitive functions and behaviors, and may also be a potential carcinogen. China's regulations: Lead content in distilled wine and formulated wine (Pb Count) must not exceed 1mg / L
(7) Manganese When potassium permanganate is used to remove impurities and deodorize, the effect of excessively high manganese residues on the health of the human body without re-distilling the liquor will affect the function of the nervous system. ) 2 mg / L
(VIII) Penicillin Pollution of penicillin to vegetables and fruits is more serious. The most serious impact of apples on human health is: national toxicity is the main national regulation: penicillin in cider and hawthorn 50 mg / L
(9) Sulfur dioxide In the production of fruit wine and wine, add an appropriate amount of sulfur dioxide to clarify, purify and ferment, and promote the dissolution and sterilization of pigment substances, acidification and antioxidant, color protection and other effects on human health: long-term low-level exposure may cause headache , Dizziness, fatigue, and other systemic symptoms, as well as chronic rhinitis, pharyngitis, bronchitis, olfactory and taste loss, etc. China's regulations: the concentration of sulfur dioxide in wine and fruit wine 250mg / L
(10) Microbial pollution The hygienic standard for fermented wine in China stipulates that the total number of colonies should be 50cfu / ml, the coliform flora of draft beer is MPN / 100ml 50, and the coliform flora of other fermented wines is MPN / 100ml 3. ^[1]