Czech Company Designs A Nonalcoholic Beer To Taste Good To Cancer Patients
A nonalcoholic brew joins the growing market to help chemo patients overcome the changes in their palates that make food unappealing. And it just might help them feel better, too.
Many oncology patients swear off alcohol during treatment, but in the Czech Republic, where beer is the national beverage, cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy have a new option.
The non-alcoholic Mamma Beer (mamma is the Latin word for "breast") is meant to counteract dysgeusia, a palate-altering phenomena that is often a side effect of chemotherapy that makes food and drink taste bitter or bland. It is targeted to women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer, and is one of several new products coming onto the market specifically to address the changes in the way food tastes to cancer patients.
"Chemotherapy in breast cancer patients often causes a loss in taste or a change of taste that leads
