why’ doesn’t zero calorie alcohol exist? And could it possibly be something that can?
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As people have explained elsewhere, zero-calorie alcohol is definitionally impossible. That said, in terms of something with zero calories that *acts* like alcohol, it largely depends on what you want from the hypothetical drink.
If you just want the same flavors, then yes, it’s currently possible to create drinks similar to certain spirits without containing any alcohol. It’s something that a number of companies have been releasing for the past several years – just search for NA spirits – and they’re likely to continue improving.
If you want the *feeling* of alcohol with zero calories, though, that’s going to be a whole lot tougher. Alcohol intoxication is the result of enhancing and inhibiting certain groups of neurotransmitters in the brain; it’s *plausible* that someone could invent a drug that does the same, but unlikely that such a thing would ever reach a consumer level.
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