This is why beer, wine, bottled orange juice smell fishy

Fish is an ingredient in our daily favorite drinks like wine, beer, bottled orange juice. This weird sounding thing is true.

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Beer is a beverage that is extracted after fermentation of barley. This product is derived from plants so many vegetarians also use this product.

However, few people know that some brewers have used special additives to filter beer and wine to increase the flavor and make the drink more clear. This special additive includes moss, gelatin and mica - extracts from fish bubbles .

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This must surprise you. Since the 18th century, Roman people have used additives containing mica, taken from sturgeon bubbles to distill beer.

People even used cow's blood to make a wine filter. But then, the European Union has banned the use of cow blood because of the mad cow disease that prevailed at that time.

Since then, people only use bubbles of fish, mainly catfish and other catfish to make additives.

Interestingly, the quality and size of the fish bubble will affect the effectiveness of the additive. Therefore, to ensure the quality of alcohol, manufacturers often purchase fish bubbles in tropical and subtropical regions, where the fish with the best bubble quality.

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Additives will be put into the barrel of beer, wine to eliminate the pungent odor of barley, the precipitate blocks are formed and fell to the bottom of the barrel. After removing the final precipitate and distillation blocks, the final product is much more attractive and attractive.

Not only alcohol but also another popular drink is bottled orange juice that also contains ingredients from fish.

This is a unique idea of ​​the manufacturer to help consumers have an orange juice rich in omega3 acid - a bright eye nutrient found in anchovies, sardines and tilapia. And instead of eating fish to absorb nutrients, we can drink orange juice.