In short: According to science, a snack should be moderate and low-fat, because food stresses the liver and pancreas, and this makes hangovers worse. Also, a lump of undigested food can accumulate alcohol in itself, so that the drinker, unnoticed by himself, can sort out alcohol more than his norm. Also, doctors warn that spicy food will slow down the processing of alcohol, and mushrooms in the presence of alcohol can become poisonous. Juicy fruits, drinks containing quinine, and enzyme preparations will help the body cope with the alcohol load.

how to eat properly	why exactly
, lean, easily digestible. On the day of drinking, give up protein foods: meat, sausage, mushrooms, legumes, pearl barley, homemade goose and duck	Large and hard-to-digest food increases the load on the liver, causing a more severe hangover. In addition, food delays the absorption of alcohol, it seems to a person that he drank a little, and he continues to drink - in this way, you can go overboard and even drink a lethal dose of alcohol without noticing it. Be careful!
- take mezim-forte, following the instructions	taking enzymes will help digest a heavy snack, which means it will reduce the load on the liver and pancreas
, apples are especially useful	they contain dietary fiber and pectin, which improve digestion and help the body cope better with alcohol. As a result, the hangover will be milder.
sauerkraut, honey, juicy fruits and berries, lemons, grape and apple juice	these products contain a lot of organic acids that improve metabolism and speed up the processing of alcohol
, it is useful to drink one mug of coffee or cocktail tonic + vodka	caffeine and quinine (found in classic tonics like Shweppes) increase the activity of enzymes. The liver begins to work better and easier to cope with alcohol.
: watermelon, zucchini, strawberry, wild strawberry, dandelion, green tea	together with urine, poisonous products of alcohol processing will also quickly leave the body. The hangover won't be so bad
containing garlic, horseradish, onion, mustard, pepper, vinegar	spicy food slows down the oxidation of alcohol and increases the vulnerability of the pancreas
	for example, meat must be digested in an acidic environment, and potatoes in an alkaline one. Therefore, meat with potatoes is a difficult dish to digest.
. Do not snack on alcohol with lines, morels, red fly-mouses, pigs, old rain-weeks, some subspecies of russula	the edibility of many mushrooms is determined by individual sensitivity. And if you usually digest certain mushrooms well, then in the presence of alcohol they can also become poisonous to the liver or cause frightening hallucinations.

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In our culture, the tradition of accompanying alcohol with a hearty meal is so ingrained that the very fact that it is necessary and useful is beyond doubt. The expressions “Snack degree steals” and “You need to have a snack!” firmly entered into use. Doctors have their own (correct) opinion on this matter. Read this text carefully and without prejudice. Print it out and show it to your friends. This is important for your health.

How not to eat

1. Why is it dangerous to eat a lot

As well as oily food, or indigestible protein food. The latter includes meat, sausage, mushrooms, peas, beans, barley, domestic goose and duck.

4. Why it is better to be careful with mushrooms

The domestic tradition of “wave under the mushrooms” is also not suitable for everyone. On the one hand, there are a sufficient number of mushrooms, the edibility of which is determined by the individual insensitivity of the organism.

These mushrooms include lines, morels, red fly agaric, pigs, raincoats collected in an aging state, some subspecies of russula. The presence of alcohol in the stomach and intestines creates an extractive effect, additionally releasing toxic substances from the pulp of the fungus, and also facilitates their penetration through tissue barriers (increases bioavailability).

On the other hand, the combined action of alcohol and certain substances in mushrooms leads to a pharmacological effect that these substances and alcohol alone cannot produce. A mixture of organic acids of lines and morels, collectively called "gelwellic" acid (from the name of the genus of fungi to which lines and morels belong), in the presence of alcohol becomes toxic to the liver, and gyromitrin contained in variable amounts, in addition to hepatotoxic, hemolytic (destroying red blood cells) and cardiotoxic effects, also becomes an LSD-like hallucinogen (probably due to the appearance of ethylamides in reactions of incomplete reduction of keto groups of aldehydes formed during the oxidation of alcohol).

5. What else is a dangerous snack

Alcohol also greatly increases sensitivity to substances that block the sodium channels of cell membranes. One such substance, tetrodotoxin, is found in small amounts in the famous puffer fish. If you plan to order it in a Japanese restaurant, keep in mind that drinking it with alcohol is dangerous: its effect on the body can change, even fatal.

What is good to eat

1. Isn't it bad to eat a little?

We already figured out how harmful a hearty snack is at the very beginning of this article. The snack should be moderate, low-fat, easily digestible.

The hangover will be easier if you do not rush to drink all the alcohol in one sitting, but stretch the same dose for the whole evening. At the same time, eat light food that slows down the absorption of alcohol, but does not burden the liver: for example, rice, which acts as a sorbent. The absorption of alcohol will slow down, and the body will have time to cope with it better.

By choosing the right snack, you can reduce the harm from drinking and ease tomorrow's hangover. Read more about this below.

2. About vegetables and fruits

Recommended vegetables and fruits, especially apples. They contain enough dietary fiber and pectin to improve digestion and help the body better process alcohol. The more efficiently the body will process alcohol, the less it will have time to suffer in the process and the more gentle tomorrow's hangover will be.

Fruits (especially apples), as well as grape and apple juice, improve metabolism, allowing you to process alcohol faster.

This is interesting: vegetables and fruits reduce the risk of hormone-dependent cancer in people who drink. It is well known that alcohol consumption increases the risk of developing hormone-dependent malignancies - in particular, breast cancer (one of the sources: Seitz HK, Pelucchi C, Bagnardi B, La Vecchia C, Epidemiology and pathophysiology of alcohol and breast cancer: update 2012). This is due to the fact that alcohol increases the concentration of sex hormones in the blood. Scientists have tried to find out how you can reduce this risk, and conducted a prospective study. The results showed that a diet rich in dietary fiber (fiber) significantly reduces the risk of ovarian cancer in people who drink alcohol.

5. What snack helps get rid of harmful alcohol processing products

It is good if there are products on the table that have a diuretic effect: watermelon, zucchini, garden strawberries and strawberries, dandelion, green tea. Together with urine, poisonous products of alcohol processing will also be excreted from the body faster: the very substances that make a hangover morning so unbearable.

Clue. What to do if there is a heavy snack on the table

If it still doesn’t work out sparingly, a simple trick can alleviate the situation: accompany the libation with a reception (according to the instructions!) Taking an enzyme preparation mezim-forte. It is sold in any pharmacy and is inexpensive. Taking enzymes will help digest a heavy snack, which means reducing the load on the liver and pancreas, which are already busy with the complex process of alcohol processing.

Note! Mezim, not a festal. Festal contains bovine bile and therefore leads to a decrease in the synthesis of our own bile acids, and during libations we need the synthesis of our own bile with its good separation.

Mezim forte can be replaced by taking enzyme preparations Wobenzym or Creon. However, they are significantly more expensive, and in this particular case they have no advantages.

Please note that in this article we rely only on scientific data. Beware of advice on other sites, if you are not sure that they are given by a scientist, a specialist. You should not trust your body to charlatans, because only science gives verifiable and reliable results. On the Internet, anyone can write anything on any topic, but we remain the only site in our niche that does not save energy on searching and checking information, and orders articles from real experts.

Healthy Snack Recipes: Set the Table

Here are some examples of right and wrong snacks. Read the article to the end - and you can set a decent holiday table. The appetizer on this table will be such that your liver and pancreas will thank you for treating them well. Because if you drink alcohol and eat everything in three throats, then it is likely that you will be twisted by an attack of severe pain in your side right during the holiday.

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1. Vinaigrette

First: instead of Olivier, make a vinaigrette. Vinaigrette is a very smart snack, if you do not eat it in whole basins. Let's see why. Salad, as you know, consists of beets, potatoes, carrots and onions. As well as sauerkraut, canned peas and pickles.

Please note: cucumbers should be salted, not pickled. Sauerkraut and pickles contain succinic acid: it will help boost the metabolism and make the liver work a little easier. The marinade also contains vinegar, which will prevent you from processing alcohol. Also, cabbage and cucumbers contain micro and macro elements that we lose due to the diuretic effect of alcohol. Fiber in vegetables will also not be superfluous.

If you want to make vinaigrette an even more proper appetizer, don't put green peas in it. Peas are not your friend. Onions are also best kept to a minimum. And in general, the snack should be moderate. Cut seven times, eat once.

2. Aspic

Snack number two: jelly. The frozen jelly contains the substance glycine, which helps to neutralize the poisonous products of alcohol processing: in particular, acetaldehyde, which makes you feel so bad in the morning. In addition, glycine normalizes the functioning of the nervous system and improves sleep.

However, in order for the jellied meat to be only beneficial, do not overeat. Meat itself is a heavy product, it is better to avoid it and eat only jelly. In addition, spicy seasonings are usually added to this dish; try to use them to a minimum.

3. Bay fish

Third. It’s even smarter to replace jellied meat with jellied fish. It will also contain glycine, and compared to meat, fish is easier to digest. Choose low-fat fish: bream, pike perch, carp, pollock, carp. Mackerel is delicious, but make it another time. Do not add eggs to the aspic, but be sure to put a slice of lemon.

Pie with meat and potatoes, beef stroganoff, meat stew with mashed potatoes, sandwich with butter and sausage - all this is impossible! Well, that is, you can, but there is a rule here: “When you start eating, don’t drink. Started drinking - don't eat."

Boiled potatoes are a perfectly normal snack, but meat is too heavy. How about a combination of them? Doctors say unequivocally: such an appetizer is harmful. The fact is that meat must be digested under the action of the enzyme pepsin, which is active in an acidic environment, and potatoes are processed with amylase, which is active in an alkaline environment. Opposite requirements for digestion conditions lead to the fact that both components are poorly digested. And underdigested food will poison your body.

4. Sauerkraut

Proper snack number four. Of course, it is impossible not to talk separately about sauerkraut. As they say, the appetizer is excellent: it’s not a shame to put it on the table, and it’s not a pity to gobble it up. Sauerkraut contains succinic acid and the necessary micro and macro elements. And it's also very tasty.

We will also suggest a couple more life hacks: you can chop onion and herring into cabbage. Add a spoonful of vegetable oil and leave to marinate for 20 minutes. This is not very good for the drinking organism, but in moderation it will not play a role. For beauty, you can add a little beet to the cabbage, it will color the whole thing in a rich red color. And then, believe me, at your table no one will sigh over barbecue and sausage.

5. Greek salad

Pea soup, canned beans, lentil salad, and other legume dishes are the wrong snack. Outside of booze, these are healthy products, a source of vegetable protein. But this most wonderful vegetable protein will not be absorbed if you eat vodka with beans. And undigested protein serves as the basis for the formation of intestinal poisons. You do not need poisons in your intestines with a hangover.

Instead, prepare a "Greek salad": chop 3 tomatoes, 1 fresh cucumber, 1 red onion, 1 bell pepper, add 20 pieces of olives, cut feta cheese into cubes. According to the recipe, it is supposed to put 200 grams of cheese, but you put less, purely symbolically. Mix everything. Add lettuce leaves. Salt, pepper, season with a tablespoon of sunflower oil and a tablespoon of lemon juice.

Citric acid, like succinic acid, speeds up our metabolism and helps the body to quickly neutralize alcohol. He laughs well, whose head does not crack with a hangover. The dietary fiber found in vegetables is also your friend. But fat cheese is best avoided. Let the owners be offended that you do not eat what they have prepared; but in the morning you will not curse them for being sick and splitting their heads.

Barbecue, sausages and similar heavy dishes should definitely be abandoned. Well, or drink no more than 100 grams per evening, if you do not want to thunder into the hospital with an attack of pancreatitis, as happens with many on New Year's holidays. As the saying goes, you can't buy health, it's the mind that gives it.

Milkshakes, ice cream and just milk. Do you think it's a good snack? Didn't guess. Despite the fact that milk contains many useful substances, it is difficult to digest and puts a lot of stress on the pancreas. And the tryptophan contained in it also becomes a preparation for intestinal poisons.

What else is better not to put on the festive table? Spicy condiments and sauces. Garlic, horseradish, mustard, vinegar, hot pepper - all this slows down the oxidation of alcohol and makes the coming hangover more severe.

6. Canape "Traffic light"

Proper snack number six. Very pretty and very well thought out. It's called "Traffic Light". Take a wooden stick-skewer: prick a strawberry, a slice of banana and a slice of kiwi onto a skewer. Fruits, like vegetables, contain dietary fiber and pectin, which help our body cope with alcohol.

Of course, fruit is not a very traditional snack in Russia. But, firstly, if your liver could speak, it would say: "Well, fuck your traditions, let's better strawberries." Secondly, champagne and even some whiskeys go well with berries. But cognac - no. If cognac could speak, he would demand respect and personal attention. Gluttony separately, cognac separately.

7. Green tea smoothie

The seventh proper snack. What if you are a hipster? If you're a hipster, make a fruit smoothie with green tea: take a banana, kiwi and an apple. Peel the fruit, cut them into pieces and mix with a blender until puree. Add a glass of green tea, a crushed piece of fresh ginger and a teaspoon of honey. Blend again until pureed.

Green tea has a diuretic effect, so the harmful products of alcohol processing will be removed from the body faster. But it is important not to overdo it with tea: you don’t need a lot of caffeine.

8. Baked apples

Proper snack number eight: baked apples. Very good with vodka. Remove apple cores, drizzle with lemon juice, add nuts and raisins, pour over honey, rub lemon zest on top and sprinkle with cinnamon. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes. Yes, you need to freeze. But cognac does not flow under a lying stone.

Honey is another useful component on the festive table. It contains organic acids that speed up our metabolism (specifically, the tricarboxylic acid cycle), as well as fructose, which helps our body to quickly restore the reserves of enzymes that process alcohol. Here with honey you can not limit yourself.

By the way, about fructose. There is such a plant: Jerusalem artichoke. It rarely happens in stores, but if you get it, be sure to make a salad out of it for the festive table. Jerusalem artichoke contains a fructose polymer, fructose is released for hours and improves metabolism for a long time too, especially if you eat such a salad for several days in a row.

What else will not a literate man eat? Hamburger, french fries and other fast food. Fatty fried foods take a long time to digest and create a lump in the intestines. This fatty lump prevents alcohol from quickly digesting, digesting and leaving the body naturally.

It happens that a person has already slept, but is still drunk in the morning. Or getting drunk after the first sip of water. This is because alcohol continues to enter the bloodstream from the intestines. If you eat a lot of fatty foods, then you can quietly gain even a lethal dose of alcohol: alcohol is not absorbed, a person feels sober and continues to drink. As a result, the amount drunk may exceed the limits of the body's capabilities. All of the deaths from high-quality alcohol poisoning that our expert observed were associated with such a rich snack. Even if it doesn't come to that, remember: booze + overeating = heavy hangover.

9. Rolls Norimaki

Proper snack number 9: Norimaki rolls. Boil 400 grams of round grain rice. Cut 70 grams of salted salmon and fresh cucumber into thin strips. Place a sushi mat on the table, put a sheet of nori on it, roll it up tight and cut into rolls.

Well, or do not fool your head and order rolls with delivery. Rice with seafood and vegetables goes well with many drinks, including spicy and rich island varieties of scotch. And if there is Japanese whiskey on the table, then you will get a themed Japanese evening. The main disadvantage of such rolls is spicy spices and seasonings, which slow down the oxidation of alcohol and increase the vulnerability of the pancreas. If you give up wasabi, then the next morning you will feel better.

Rice slows down the absorption of alcohol. This will help smooth out the hit on the liver, because the slower the alcohol enters the liver, the less the toxic hit. Well, or just don't part with toast.

10. Salted fish

Snack number 10: salted fish. It goes well with beer, and not only in taste. The fact is that if you decide to drink a few liters of beer, then sodium will be washed out of your body. And table salt is sodium chloride.

What else do we NOT recommend? Salted mushrooms, mushroom pate, fried mushrooms and so on. Just in case, remove mushroom snacks from the festive table. Do you know why doctors call some mushrooms conditionally edible? Because sometimes they are edible, and sometimes they can poison to death. Here alcohol just increases the chances that these mushrooms will be the last thing you eat in this life. Even if it's harmless mushrooms.

It happens that you have gone over with alcohol, but suddenly you need to regain your sobriety of thinking for a while (in order to make a responsible decision or to act accurately in a critical situation). In this case, use the actionable advice of a toxicologist from our special article on how to sober up quickly at home.

The article was last updated: 02/24/2020

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How to drink alcohol so that it amuses and pleases, and does not knock down and turn off your head? For a good booze and proper alcohol consumption, you need to have a snack. How to snack on various alcohol, so that later your legs do not get tangled and your head does not hurt?

“Any food, when alcohol appears on the table, turns into a snack”

An appetizer doesn't so much steal the degree as it allows you to better enjoy the party and alcohol. From a good snack, a person gets pleasure not only from the absorption of alcohol, but also from delicious food. Each alcohol is required to be eaten with a corresponding snack. What goes well with the main spirits that we consume on holidays and sometimes for no reason?

What to eat alcohol and alcohol?

“He who drinks without snacks is a scoundrel; the one who eats and does not drink is just a bastard.

What to eat vodka?

Vodka is a popular drink that we are accustomed to seize everyone in a row or even drink without a snack. This is an amateurish approach to drinking vodka. Vodka should be eaten with fatty meat, meat flour, salted fish dishes. Salty and spicy snacks go well with vodka.

The best snacks for vodka are lard, ham, beef, veal, corned beef, pork jelly, fish, pickles, Russian vinaigrette, sauerkraut, salted tomatoes, pickled mushrooms, saltwort, potatoes.

What to eat beer?

We eat beer with chips, salted fish and nuts. But if you approach it more thoroughly, then there are many good beer snacks that will only improve the taste of the drink.

The best snacks for beer are chicken wings, Bavarian sausages, various cheeses, seafood, french fries, hot sauces, garlic bread, cheese salad, onion rings.

What to eat wine?

In vino veritas! The truth is in the wine! But the truth found in wine is required in appetizers. Wine should be eaten with meat dishes, fruits, cheese and unsweetened desserts. But there are some differences between red, white and sparkling wine.

What to eat white wine? Seafood, white meat, smoked beef, cheeses. Also Mexican or Chinese dishes. Red wines are eaten with barbecue, game, red meat, lasagna, meatballs. Sparkling wine is eaten with fruit, chocolate, nuts.

In addition to vodka, beer and wine, there are many other alcoholic drinks. Cognac and whiskey can not be eaten. If you need a snack, then some lean meat, cheese, mushrooms, seafood and fruits.

Consume alcohol with the right snack.

Russians love holidays. Thrifty owners fill refrigerators with food and alcohol the day before. This is not the Gorbachev period of the fight against alcoholism, when you had to choke in line for a bottle of Bryntsalov's drinking alcohol "Royal". Then, knowledgeable people, in order to beat off the fusel smell, insisted on orange peels. Now in any store the choice of alcohol is unlimited and amazing imagination.

The question arises - how to snack on alcoholic beverages? Of course, champagne can also be vinaigrette or herring, but I would like to give correct, scientifically based and proven recommendations. So, let's start with strong alcoholic beverages.

What to eat vodka.
Vodka is the national Russian drink. As a snack, jellied meat, bacon, herring with boiled potatoes, black and red caviar, pickles, pickled tomatoes and mushrooms, sauerkraut and other things are served to the taste of consumers.

What to eat cognac.
Cognac is the national drink of France. It is good to eat it with a slice of lemon or a piece of hard cheese. You can lightly sprinkle powdered sugar and ground coffee on a slice of lemon. Tsar Nicholas II came up with such a snack for cognac, so it became known as "nikolashka". In the classic version, cognac does not need an appetizer.

What to eat whiskey.
Whiskey is the national Scotch-Irish drink. In Scotland, whiskey is poured into a thick glass and diluted with soda (we can replace it with highly carbonated water). In Ireland, whiskey is drunk neat (note, this is a masculine word), eating smoked fish, game and oysters. In Russia, whiskey is drunk in both ways, but they still prefer to have a snack.

What to eat gin.
Gin is a pure English juniper vodka. Gin and tonic is the favorite cocktail of our ladies. Naturally, they drink it without snacking. If you drink gin clean, then you need to have a snack with olives, lemon and pickled onions.

What to eat grappa.
Grappa is the national Italian drink, but in fact it is a simple grape vodka. Meat dishes and, of course, grapes and olives are suitable for it as an appetizer.

What to eat crayfish.
Raki is the national Turkish drink, but in fact it is an aniseed vodka with a high concentration of anise. It is not drunk in its pure form. Either diluted with water in a tall narrow glass, and then the drink acquires a milky hue, which the Turks call aslan suyu (lioness milk), or they put pieces of ice in it. They drink crayfish in small sips, and have a snack with cheese, an olive or a slice of fragrant melon. In Bulgaria, there is an alcoholic drink similar to raki called mastic.

What to eat sake.
Sake is the national Japanese drink served warm. They have a bite of sushi and, sorry for the tautology, dried squid.

What to eat tequila.
Tequila is the national Mexican drink. Traditionally, you should drink and eat it in this way: lick the salt on the edge of the glass, drink the drink in one gulp and have a bite here with an attached lime slice. Salt and lime, some tequila lovers replace with cinnamon and orange.

What to eat rum.
Rum is the national drink of the Caribbean, usually drunk without snacks. Most often, rum is used to prepare various cocktails.

What to eat tea.
Chacha is the Georgian national drink. We know it as grape spirit. Since alcohol, then you need to have a snack, like Russian vodka.

What to eat liqueurs.
Becherovka is a national Czech liquor of great strength. It is drunk without snacking, in its pure form, and also added to coffee or tea.

Sambuca- national Italian anise liqueur. It is diluted with water or drunk with ice, just like crayfish, but without a snack, unless you count a couple of coffee beans thrown at the bottom of the glass as a snack.

In general, an appetizer for liqueurs is selected in accordance with their taste. For example, candied cherries are suitable for cherries, and vanilla cookies are suitable for vanilla.

What to eat wine.

Seafood, smoked fish, and fish in any other form, poultry meat and fruits go with white wine as an appetizer.

Red wine goes well with any red meat, especially lamb, fatty roast poultry, veal, and hard cheese.

Serve roasted nuts or fruit as an appetizer with vermouth.

And finally, the queen of the festive table is a bottle of champagne.

What to eat champagne.

The best appetizer for champagne is black or red caviar, seafood, white meat, cheese, fruit and ice cream.

If during a feast a misted bottle of vodka is sure to appear on the table, then you should worry about the necessary list of snacks in advance, because a snack for vodka is an integral part of the ritual of the proper use of this traditional Russian drink. And in order not to be mistaken in the choice of snacks, you should know for sure which dishes to give preference to, and which, on the contrary, to exclude from the menu.

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Appetizer for vodka

As funny as it sounds, it's an art. And the appetizer is no small part of this art.

There is an erroneous opinion that the more snacks on the table, the better. And this mistake is costly for our body. One has only to imagine what kind of load it can withstand in order to neutralize the negative impact of heterogeneous, very often incompatible products, and even enhanced by the negative effect of ethyl alcohol. Ultimately, everything that was drunk and eaten leads to severe intoxication of the body. Properly selected snacks, on the contrary, help the body resist the intoxicating effects of alcohol and have fun at the table, enjoying the taste of good vodka.

For a long time now and then there are heated debates about whether it is necessary to have a bite of vodka or a simple drink is enough. And although the disputants did not come to a consensus, medicine strongly discourages drinking vodka during a feast. Water or drinks that have entered the stomach not only do not protect the body from the harmful effects of alcohol, but also enhance the intoxicating effect, contributing to a severe hangover.

In order to avoid or significantly reduce the negative effect of vodka, we will bite each glass, but do it correctly, helping the body cope with the load.

What is the best way to drink vodka

Exciting taste buds of the body and increases appetite and "demands" a good snack. But an appetizer for vodka should have certain qualities in order to emphasize the taste of the drink and not spoil the feeling of the next dose of alcohol.

Snacks for vodka can be divided into several types according to their effect on the body and the ability to neutralize the negative effects of alcohol:

1. Nutritious dishes are mostly hot, consisting of meat and fish in various versions and having the ability to remove the primary shock from getting vodka into the mouth and then into the body.
2. Enveloping dishes that can consolidate the taste sensations obtained after eating nutritious dishes and consisting of various salads, sauces, cold broths.
3. Washing dishes, which are a set of vegetable marinades, salinity and spicy salads, allowing you to prepare your taste buds for further drinking.

It should be noted that in its pure form, most snacks are used very rarely. More common is the practice of preparing combined snacks, when dishes served as a snack are cooked in a rich broth and are both an enveloping and nutritious snack.

The main thing is to keep a balance so that excessively fatty meat eaten in large quantities does not create an exorbitant load on the liver and does not interfere with the process of alcohol breakdown. The correct ratio of drunk and eaten allows the body to endure the influence of ethyl alcohol supplied with vodka without any special consequences, and the state of intoxication occurs gradually, which allows a person to control his condition so that the result of the feast is a shallow hangover, and a good mood, multiplied by the resulting gastronomic pleasure.

Traditional snacks of Russian cuisine are considered to be all kinds of pickles and rich first courses. It is these snacks that allow you to neutralize the alcohol entering the body as much as possible and provide the necessary feeling of satiety.

It is good to have a bite of vodka with pickles or sauerkraut. They remove the bitter taste well, replenish the amount of vitamin C and sodium destroyed as a result of alcohol intake. In addition to replenishing the supply of vitamins, sauerkraut is a good source of succinic acid, which boosts metabolism and eliminates poisons resulting from alcohol ingestion.

You can offer pickled or fresh apples, lemon or orange as a snack, which contain a lot of acid and dietary fiber, and apples are additionally rich in pectin, which improves digestion and helps the body process alcohol from the earliest stages of its penetration.

It is very good to have a bite of vodka with slices of well-salted herring. Lightly salted or not "reached the standard" herring is not good. What is needed is a fish that has been aged for the required time, in which the meat is easily separated from the bones and has a uniform color throughout its thickness. Herring is served with boiled potatoes, poured with a little oil and sprinkled with finely chopped herbs. When serving such an appetizer, you need to take into account that the herring should be the basis, and potatoes are only an addition to it. Potatoes also act as a good sorbent, like a sponge that absorbs alcohol breakdown products.

When “biting off” vodka, one should not forget good homemade salted lard. Together with pieces of black rye bread, a high-calorie snack is obtained. Along with lard, it is good to serve jelly as an appetizer with vodka. Seasoned with spices, it causes an increase in appetite. And the glycine contained in the bones and passing into the jelly during slow cooking compensates for the body's losses incurred as a result of drinking alcohol.

How not to remember red and black caviar. A sandwich with caviar perfectly complements a drunk glass, and the peculiar taste goes well with many other dishes.

What not to eat vodka

Among the popular snacks, oddly enough, there are many products that prevent our body from processing the resulting alcohol and removing its decay products.

The first thing you shouldn't do is drink too much.. The stomach overloaded with food simply refuses to work, which leads to the most negative consequences, even without drinking alcohol.

You should not get carried away with protein-rich bean foods or a lot of mushrooms. You can eat two or three pickled mushrooms to harmonize taste sensations, but if you eat vodka with a plate of beans with fried mushrooms, then digestion and intestinal problems will be ensured in 99.9% of cases, which, of course, slows down the self-cleaning of the body, greatly increases intoxication and leads to at least a severe hangover.

If during the feast there is vodka on the table, then it is better to remove several types of products from the menu.

fresh tomatoes

Oddly enough, but it is fresh tomatoes that do not go well with vodka. The action of organic acids contained in tomatoes in large quantities is greatly enhanced by the alcohol present in vodka and leads to severe irritation of the gastric mucosa. As a result of spasm, at least unpleasant sensations are provided, and in the worst case, indigestion or bloating.

Pickles

Unlike their salty relatives, which help the body cope with a violation of the water-salt balance, pickled vegetables additionally burden the kidneys and liver, which are already barely able to cope with the alcohol entering the body.

Pastries and cakes

Our body also loves sweets very much and is able to choose the foods it likes to eat, and since glucose is more important for it from the whole set of snacks, it will first of all begin to “destroy” sweets, completely forgetting about the nearby alcohol. The remaining “unattended” alcohol will provide severe intoxication and a severe hangover, which will be very difficult for the body to get out of without outside help.

Chocolate

Any alcohol and chocolate are absolutely incompatible products. Chocolate that tastes good hits the pancreas so painfully that the resulting spasms can completely block the ducts and disrupt the normal functioning of this important organ. As a result, an attack of pancreatitis with all the ensuing troubles.

Fatty fried meat

According to its properties, fatty and overcooked meat in itself is the strongest stress for the entire digestive tract, and in combination with alcohol, the load on the liver can become simply prohibitive. The meat should be boiled or baked in the oven, then it is digested for a long time, and in the process of processing it binds alcohol molecules. As a result of slow decay, harmful substances are filtered by the liver in small doses and do not cause significant harm to the body.

spicy snacks

You can multiply the negative impact of alcohol by eating vodka with too spicy foods. Chili pepper, Scorpion or Carolina Ripper contained in very spicy dishes can, under the influence of alcohol, cause such a severe burn of the stomach lining that emergency medical attention may be required. Therefore, when drinking vodka, one should not snack on various South American spices, but limit oneself to the familiar mustard, horseradish or adjika.

Melon

Sweet, pleasant-tasting melon is absolutely contraindicated as a snack for vodka. In addition to a large amount of sugar, which is comparable to eating a cake, melon provides such rapid fermentation in the stomach under the influence of alcohol that all its contents, literally “starting to dance”, tend to splash out.

What to cook for a snack with vodka

When inviting guests, the first thing to do is to decide on the start time of the feast, because the composition of the menu of the festive table will depend on this.

Following the correct sequence of eating, first consider an approximate lunch menu, given that a bottle of vodka cools down in the refrigerator to the required temperature, approximately 6-8 ° C.

First meal

Be sure to prepare borscht or fish soup. To prepare borscht, you need a rich beef broth that has been simmering for several hours over low heat. For those who do not eat meat, you can cook lean borscht in the broth of ordinary beans, after frying all the other ingredients in good sunflower oil. Then the borscht will turn out moderately thick and rich.

For fish soup, it is preferable to take river predators, and if there are several species of fish in the ear, then it will be as rich and tasty as possible. You can cook red fish soup by balancing the taste with a small amount of saffron.

As a first course, a combined hodgepodge is also suitable. The dish, of course, is difficult to prepare, requiring a large number of ingredients, but the taste of the “right” hodgepodge is worth it.

Hot dishes

Boiled potatoes with greens are good as a hot snack, especially if they are not overcooked and are soft pieces that do not break when stabbed on a fork.

You can cook a variety of lean meat dishes both on the stove and on an open fire. The main thing is that the meat is juicy. Excellent results are obtained if you cook meat in a closed grill or in the oven.

If meat is not consumed, you can cook river or sea fish. Pike perch, pike, chub, perch, or more exotic sturgeon, sterlet, beluga. You can also serve sea fish as an appetizer, especially salmon, trout, stacks of salmon, pink salmon or chum salmon.

Cold snacks

There are a lot of cold appetizers that go well with vodka, and what appears on the table depends on the taste preferences of the hostess and her guests. Each hostess always has several "signature" recipes.

Jellied meat and jellied tongue, thinly sliced ​​bacon or numerous salads and pickles are perfect. When choosing fat, it is imperative to try its hardness and lack of fibers. Sometimes there is fibrous fat, which can only be swallowed whole. Of course, it should not be served on the table.

Sauerkraut flavored with spices and pickles the size of a little finger will complement any hot dish well, and can also become an independent snack with vodka.

Herring, boned and cut into neat slices, is excellent as an independent snack and goes well with bread, eggs and many other products as part of complex sandwiches.

As a basis for sandwiches for vodka, it is better to take thin slices of real rye bread, laying various products on them and sprinkling a little onion sauce on top.

Quick appetizer for vodka

But what if the guests are on the doorstep and there is simply no time to cook complex hot and cold dishes? Here, recipes for quick snacks come to the rescue, which are sure to be in the arsenal of every housewife.

sandwiches

Having even a modest supply of food in the refrigerator, and black bread or, at worst, a long loaf in a bread box, you can cook a huge number of different sandwiches as a snack for vodka. With meat, fish, vegetables and in the most bizarre combinations of these products.

Having sausage or ham, it would be useful to prepare small rolls by twisting finely chopped eggs and cheese into thin slices of ham, flavoring the filling with garlic juice and herbs.

If there is thinly sliced ​​hard cheese and ham, we quickly fold the products alternately into a kind of puff “pie”, cut into cubes and serve on skewers.

Salted vegetables

Cucumbers cut into slices along or across, as you like. We spread it on a large dish, add sauerkraut and soaked apples cut into slices, sprinkle with thinly sliced ​​\u200b\u200bonion half rings soaked in marinade or just in water and a quick snack for vodka is ready. Together with black bread, it is combined with vodka so that other snacks may not be required.

Salty fish

If there is a small amount of salted red fish and herring, we quickly prepare a wonderful snack. We cut the red fish into thin slices, grease with oil marinade and twist into a roll. We free the herring from the bones and, cut into small pieces, put it on a plate, garnishing with onions and herbs.

You can argue for a long time which snack is best suited for vodka. The main thing is to take into account the compatibility of vodka and the selected product and choose the dishes that guests and hosts like the most. The most important thing is that a plentiful snack, masking the negative effects of alcohol, does not lead to severe intoxication and a severe hangover. The right snack allows you to gradually get drunk, feel full and maintain a fun heart-to-heart conversation.