Is there any sugar free alcohol ?

Question

Im diabetic, but would like to have a mixed drink every now and then.

Answer 1

There is a sugar alcohol that is used as an ingredient in many diabetic foods because it adds the sweet but without the increase in blood sugar. I don't know where to get it but if you start reading the labels you will see it in there. Also, you need to check with your doctor to see if this will mess up your medicines. Good luck.

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

There are low carb alcohols out there. But just because an alcohol is low carb doesn't mean it won't affect your blood sugar. You pancreas and liver and very closely related.

The pdf I linked below has everything you need to know.

Distilled Liquors (vodka, gin, whiskey), light beers, and Dry Wines are all generally low carb as long as you remember to use only sugar free mixers like diet soda.

I have seen commercials for rum that claim rum with diet soda is low carb.

Nutritionists say that if you're trying to loose weight, limiting your alcohol is the best thing to do.

Since you are diabetic make sure you never drink on a empty stomach. It can cause extreme low blood sugars because your liver is so busy processing the alcohol it doesn't do it's part to help control your blood sugar and if you on insulin you have problems.

All that said there is no reason you can have some dry champagne at celebration or a wine spritzer with dinner. The pdf even has common drinks with their exchange rates if you are doing the diabetic exchange diet.

Remember these few things and Enjoy Yourself!
It's not worth living a long life otherwise.

#1) Drink with a meal or follow a good meal
#2) Use your meter and keep an eye on your sugar.
#3) Sugar Free Mixers Only
#4) Only have 2 - 3 drinks even at a big event
#5) Alcohol hit diabetics harder so you may get drunk fast.
#6) If it's more than a drink with dinner, make sure someone you are with knows what to do if something goes wrong, just in case. (Example: You're blood sugar noses dives and you pass out. You don't want everyone thinking you've just had 1 too many when you need food.)

Answer 4

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Answer 5

For mixed drinks, as long as it's a straight spirit that's not sweetened (whiskey, non-spiced rum, tequila, vodka, gin) there are no sugars in it. If it's a liqueur, steer clear because a lot of sugar is added for sweetness.
Bear in mind that your mixer also has to be sugar-free. So, a rum and diet coke, or vodka and sugar-free red bull would be examples of sugar-free mixed drinks.

Beer and wine have varying amounts of sugar...particularly wine, so you have to be careful.

With regards to your diabetes, you need to check with your doctor more about how the alcohol affects it than what to do about the sugar. You can easily avoid sugar in your drinks if you're careful and order very specifically. However, if the alcohol is going to cause problems, the sugar content becomes irrelevant.

All alcohol starts as sugar. Yeast is added to a sugar solution (malt sugars for beer or whiskey mash, grape and fruit sugars for wine, molasses and cane sugar for rum, etc.) and it consumes the sugar leaving behind by-products of alcohol and CO2 (the yeast doesn't "react" with the sugar, it eats it).
With wines and beer, the fermentation (yeast eating sugars) can be stopped early to leave some residual sugars and the resultant sweetness...OR, it can be fermented to dryness (dry being the opposite of sweet) and have virtually no sugar left. Thus, there is always *some* amount of sugar in beer, malt beverages, wine, etc.
When spirits are distilled, if there is any residual sugar in the brew that is being distilled, it doesn't carry over into the final spirit...it's purely alcohol, water, and some of the flavor from the brew that carries over, and sugar is left behind. As such, any sugar in spirits are added back in by the producer. Liqueurs have a lot of sugar added, but spirits do not. Flavored spirits are a little bit of a crapshoot, but if it's sweet, there's a good chance it has had sugar added. If it's not sweet, but has the flavor of, say, orange, it's only had the flavor added, but no sugar...take flavored vodkas for example.

If you're not up for speculating, you can't go wrong with just plain vodka, silver rum or tequila, or gin, and mix that with a sugar-free mixer.

Answer 6

^There are a ton of things we can't digest that's also 0 calories. That aside... alcohol is made from sugar. Granted, most of the sugar becomes alcohol, but some might still remain. There are only very few liquors that have fat in them... but alcohol itself can make you fat because of the way it interacts with your body fat. Not necessarily about calories, but chemical reactions. The 40% liquors with no flavorings, e.g. rum, gin, vodka should be the closest to what you want. Or Everclear.

Answer 7

No there isn't. The alcohol is created through fermentation. Yeast reacting with the sugar and starch in grains and fruit juices. Grapes to make wine, grains to make beer etc. Liquor is then distilled to increase the potency of the alcohol.

I would discuss it with your doctor first, but a mixed drink, like rum and coke, with diet coke every now and then shouldn't hurt.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

No thtat i know of, but im sure you can buy some if you look in health food shops, or even on the internet and order some.
To ciut down the sugar, just add water instead of lemonade, or diet lemonade, but i see you problem...

Answer 10

Vodka