Our myth-busting mission continues with bananas. They are a staple fruit for many of us, but can eating them lead to a false reading on a breathalyzer? Acumen Law Corporation lawyers Kyla Lee and Paul Doroshenko will be testing to see if eating bananas can give, what would appear to be, an alcohol reading on an approved roadside screening device.
In “Can You Fail It?” we put everyday household consumables to the test to ask, Can You Fail It? That is, can you give a false positive reading on a breathalyzer after consuming it.
Remember, we are testing whether these products will generate a false positive reading on an approved screening device (ASD). Some items may or may not register on an ASD when they are present in your mouth. They do not necessarily have to be absorbed by your body to show up on a breathalyzer.
Watch the video to find out, Can You Fail It?
Can you fail it after using mouthwash such as listerine?
I have failed a breathalyzer eating a banana. I went out to my car on a hot Summer’s Day to take a lunch from working our plaza downtown Detroit on a weekend had started my car to get the air conditioning going and began drinking a water and eating a banana when my 5 minute breathalyzer required to test chewed the banana swallowed took a quick sip of water and immediately breathalyzed and that was it told me to pull over which means it detected alcohol swear to God true story.