• twistedtxb@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    The fact that wine and beer bottles are exempt from those Nutrition Facts labels is utter nonsense.

    If people knew how much sugar and calories are in their drink maybe they would think twice

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      1 year ago

      I was drinking a while claw with my mother-in-law, and reflected that 100 calories was pretty good.

      She responded she preferred her normal vodka sodas because they have 0 calories…

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        Honestly I wouldn’t know if I didn’t have to take nutrition 101 in college.

        Actually who am I kidding if I didn’t know I probably would’ve googled it.

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          There are a lot less calories in a litre of vodka than the alcohol content equivalent of beer. Hard liquor is much lower calorie than beer, but you’re not meant to sit around and drink a litre of fucking vodka dude. That’s definitely not on “the sources” lol

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      There are nutrition labels on alcohol in Europe, but people there drink as much as here.

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        Europe drinks way more alcohol than North America

        Excerpt from the article:

        If you feel that Europeans drink a lot, your hunch is correct: people across the continent consume more alcohol than in any other part of the world. Each year in Europe, every person aged 15 and over consumes, on average, 9.5 litres of pure alcohol, which is equivalent to around 190 litres of beer, 80 litres of wine or 24 litres of spirits. That’s according to the 2021 European health report by the World Health Organization (WHO).

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          The cans of beer that I buy have ingredients and nutrition info like a soda can does.

          Haven’t seen any on liquor bottles though.

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            I don’t have any liquor bottles, but my wine bottles have ingredients info, but no nutrition info.

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              Depends on from where they were sourced.

              My Itallian red wine has nutritional info, French sourced white wine has nutritional info, American sourced red wine has nothing.

              A short search states that the US doesnt have to have labels on alcohol because it’s not regulated by the FDA.

              In Canada beer alcohol isn’t required to have nutritional info.

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      The fact that wine and beer bottles are exempt from those Nutrition Facts labels is utter nonsense.

      I did not know that. That is nuts.

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      But then when you do see the nutrition label, it ends up acting as an ad that it’s a healthier drink.

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      This I fully agree with, and have no idea why they are currently exempted but assume lobbying.