A US company is marketing a new drink that it says can actually reduce a person's blood alcohol level.
Safety Shot has claimed its canned drink can lower blood alcohol content in as little as 30 minutes.
The drink is currently on sale in the US with further launches planned later this year.
It sells at $19.99 for a four-pack or individual cans for $4.99.
The Guardian Science Correspondent Linda Geddes told Moncrieff she wanted to find out for herself if it really works.
"They launched this product just before Christmas," she said.
"The precise combination of ingredients and proportions is heavily guarded.
"It contains a mixture of different things, lots of vitamins, electrolytes as well as some substances that they call nootropics that are meant to be kind of cognitive enhancers.
"But it also has a lot of caffeine, it has 200mg of caffeine in every can."
Image: Safety Shot, Inc.Ms Geddes said the company makes some big claims about their small drink.
"Their big claim is this drink can dramatically and rapidly reduce the amount of alcohol that's present in your blood," she said.
"Usually when you drink alcohol it kind of slowly goes down over hours, but their claim is that it massively speeds up that process by doing something to your metabolism.
"They also say that it kind of lines the stomach and stops any residual alcohol that's sitting in there from being absorbed.
"These are big claims and I was curious".
Putting it to the test
Ms Geddes said after taking the product, she wasn't sure if anything had changed.
"I think I counted about seven glasses of wine, I had a breathalyser with me," she said.
"I drank the wine over the course of a few hours with my dinner.
"We got to about 11pm and I decided that was enough... and I waited about 20 minutes after my last drink."
Ms Geddes said she then took a breathalyser test and repeated it about every 20 minutes to check her blood alcohol.
"What I found was that it just stayed at the same levels, basically, between 11pm and 1am when I finally went to bed," she said.
Ms Geddes said it could have been the case that without the drink, her blood alcohol level would have continued to rise.
"It definitely perked me up, I was more lively," she said.
"When I walked home at 1am, I didn't feel exactly drunk but I did feel that my legs and arms were moving in a weird way for a sober person," she added.
Ms Geddes said that while she didn't sleep too well that night, she woke up with no hangover the next day.
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