However, as peanut butter travels from the mouth to the large intestine, it bypasses the lungs. Unless you're washing your lungs out with a peanut butter sandwich, it won't help you beat a breathalyzer test.
Eating peanut butter: Peanut butter has a rather potent, deep scent and is known to help conceal alcohol breath.
High sodium levels in peanut butter can neutralize ethanol or ethyl alcohol, but not much. Peanut butter bypasses the lungs and does not lower or neutralize the alcohol in the deep lung air. The deep lung air is what breathalyzers process to calculate your BAC.
You can beat a breathalyzer by hyperventilating, exercising, or holding your breath before you blow. Fact: An often-cited decades-old study found that hyperventilation and vigorous exercise did indeed lower subjects' BAC readings by as much as 10%.
However, you cannot beat a breathalyzer test, or bypass a breathalyzer device without being reported. The most common tip to beath a breathalyzer is to use mouthwash or a breath mint. However most mouthwashes or mints result in testing positive for a higher level of BrAC as they contain alcohol among their ingredients.
Specifically, hyperventilation and drinking water before using the breathalyzer were shown to significantly lower the BrAC readings.
Vinegar – Some types of vinegar are made from wine and contain trace amounts of alcohol. Not nearly enough to cause impairment, but possibly enough to lead to a false positive.
Basically, the longer the alcohol stays in your stomach, rather than going into your intestine and your bloodstream, the more time your body has to absorb the alcohol. Eating foods high in healthy fats can encourage this, Dr. Raj says, so have a meal that involves avocado or peanut butter before drinking.
If you've used a product that contains alcohol, the Breathalyzer might detect the alcohol concentration and report a false positive. Products that contain alcohol include toothpaste, aftershave, hand sanitizer, bleach, mouthwash, perfume and cologne. Even spraying bug repellent on yourself can produce a false positive.
In Strategically-Placed Airplane Bottles
There are many places on your body where you can hide small bottles of liquor. For instance, flip an airplane bottle upside down and tuck it into your sock, near the natural divot at your ankle. Or hide a few in the folds of your ample belly.
Generally, a breathalyzer test can test positive for alcohol for up to 12 hours after consuming one alcoholic drink. The average urine test can also detect alcohol 12-48 hours later. If your BAC is 0.08, it will take approximately 5 hours to metabolize the alcohol completely before you can become “sober” again.
Alcohol-based mouthwash products, like Listerine, can cause you to fail a Breathalyzer test for as long as 10 minutes after use. If you're a driver under the age of 21, the effect could last even longer since the blood alcohol content thresholds are even lower for an underage DWI.
The presence of acid in one's breath or mouth can skew the BAC results to produce a false outcome. As a result, the presence of GERD in an individual may serve as a defense to DUI charges based on Breathalyzer test results.
In short, using peanut butter to beat breathalyzer tests isn't an effective solution, and here's why: high levels of sodium found in peanuts and other legume by-products will neutralize ethanol (or alcohol) — but not by much.
Taking activated charcoal pills while drinking to help absorb alcohol. Based on studies, this doesn't seem to help, but it also doesn't hurt. The idea is to stop some of the alcohol from hitting your blood in the first place.
How much is the reading affected? The study found that artificially sweetened drinks, such as Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi, provided an average breath alcohol concentration of 0.065%. Comparatively, conventional sugary carbohydrate-laden drinks, such as Coke and Pepsi, yielded a concentration of 0.045%.
Another IID manufacturer, SmartStart, explains that a breath test taken immediately after using these products could return a breath alcohol reading as high as 0.25 percent. For this reason, waiting at least 15 minutes after brushing teeth or rinsing with mouthwash is recommended.
Eat Some Onion and Garlic
The strong aroma of onion and garlic can mask the odor of alcohol. If you eat a little bit of garlic or some red onion with your food, they can mask the smell of alcohol for some time. When you are out drinking with friends order some garlic flavored food along with your drinks.