eli5: How come alcohol doesn’t have the health benefits that other fermented foods have?

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eli5: How come alcohol doesn’t have the health benefits that other fermented foods have?

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Fermentation itself has a very broad definition in that it just means enzymatic change in some way (of the food) mostly by microorganisms. It does not actually mean the creation a singular product that has some health benefit, most of the health benefits of fermented foods come from the food that is being fermented and the fermentation is mostly a method of preserving the food through production of lactic acid.

In the case of production of alcoholic beverages fermentation is just the process by which the alcohol is created – and alcohol simply does not have ‘the health benefits’ other foods may have. It really doesn’t matter how a chemical is created it only matter what effect it has on your body…