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"alcohol free" is not free of alcohol but can contain up to 0.5% alcohol.
This could be fatal for people having had an alcohol addition because that sets them right back into the circle of drug abuse.
There are beers that are at 0.0% and they are marketed like that for everybody trying to drink no alcohol at all.
Since apple juice can contain up to 0.5% of alcohol as well, somebody who wants to drink no alcohol at all has to be careful and knowledgeable about drinks and food in general.
The last time I read something about this, former alcoholics have different tolerances of trace amounts of alcohol. For some a drink that only tastes like an alcoholic beverage can already be difficult just due to the memories connected to it even if there is no alcohol in it.
Nonalcoholic can have up to 0.5%
Alcohol free can have up to 0.05%
For context, bread can have up to 1.9%
So uhhh if 0.5% is problematic for someone, I got bad news...
This is well-known and even written on the labels. There are special 0,0% beer products that guarantee to be absolutely free.
As a dry alcoholic you normally know such things.
I take offense they are called "alcohol FREE". That's just false advertisement, whatever is in the fineprint.
Read the comments in this post. They are worded like "yeah, I like to have a beer sometimes, but without alcohol, so I chose an "alkoholfrei" beer". When they, in fact, are drinking an alcoholic brewage, still.
Because in many countries 0.5 is considered non-alcoholic and most countries don't differentiate between non-alcoholic and alcohol-free, so it's legally not false advertising.
Also you physically cannot get drunk when drinking 0.5 abv beer which means in terms of drunkeness there's functionally no difference if people drink 0 abv beer or 0.5 abv beer. Recovering alcoholics can have a response to but that can be due to sensory cues making the alcoholic believe they're getting drunk and not the actual ethanol in the drink. Recovering alcoholics (at least to my knowledge) are also recommended to steer clear of alcohol free beer due to the same sensory cues. So who really needs the distinction between non-alcoholic and alcohol-free?
And as a follow-up. If there really is the need for distinction should that distinction exist for food as well? Do we need a disclaimer that ripe bananas can contain 0.2 to 0.4 ABV of alcohol?