Few drinks (save tea or coffee) divide the world so spectacularly as beer or wine. There’s no accounting for taste, of course – but there are subtle differences in the way they affect your body and determine your health. Is one more fattening than another? How do their heart benefits compare? And which gives the worse hangover? BBC Future has combed through the data to bust some of the myths surrounding two of the world’s favourite drinks.

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BEER: WHERE DO ALL THOSE FLAVOURS COME FROM? There are thousands of different ways that yeast, malt, and hops that can be combined to make beer, and all those combinations can lead to lots of interesting outcomes. There are also a LOT of additives you can put in beer to give it different flavours, but I’m going to focus on the core ingredients: yeast, hops, and malt. Yeast Yeast is a fungus.

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Kai Li (李锴)

PhD candidate of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University

Leiden University

the Netherlands