All the buzz and no hangover? The next generation of alcohol-free drinks
Science Weekly
The Guardian
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🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. Get your morning mojo going with Mullah like Greek style. |
| 0:17.0 | Now with a new recipe, with Vitamin B6 and Vitamin D. Let's have it! |
| 0:25.0 | Mull-a-light rush, the work parties, the dinners with friends. Here we are. |
| 0:45.6 | Here's to that and you brought the party to Science Weekly. There's loads of drinks all over the table. |
| 0:51.0 | I have, but don't get too excited because we're not about to do |
| 0:54.3 | drunk science. All the drinks that I bought are actually non-alcoholic. Well that's great |
| 1:00.5 | because I do still have some news to write. And actually, you know, non-alcoholic drinks have got so much better, I think, in the last few years. |
| 1:08.0 | And so many more of us are turning to non-alcoholic drinks to get through the party season without waking up every |
| 1:15.4 | single morning with a hangover. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah and I can do a non-alcoholic beer, you know, you have to enjoy that smug feeling the next morning |
| 1:21.9 | when you're not feeling rotten and you're |
| 1:24.2 | vaguely hydrated but there are parties when can be hard without that little bit of |
| 1:30.0 | social lubrication isn't it? |
| 1:32.0 | Which is why there's a whole new market of |
| 1:34.9 | drinks which promise exactly that all the benefits without any of the |
| 1:39.6 | negative side effects. So I thought today we should actually try some of those and of course |
| 1:46.1 | get the science behind them because the fun never stops here. It does never stop on |
| 1:51.5 | science weekly. So today drinks that promise a buzz without the alcohol |
| 1:57.4 | What's their trick and do they actually work? From the Guardian. I'm Madeline Finley. |
| 2:04.0 | And I'm the science editor, Ian Sample. |
| 2:06.0 | And this is Science Weekly. |
| 2:09.0 | Okay. |
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