![]() How many calories in a large glass of wine? The strength of the wine might alter this number a bit, but this is generally at the higher end of things. How many calories in a glass of wine?Īccording to the Drink Aware unit and calorie counter, there's 159 calories in a standard 175ml of 13% wine. So, here's what you need to know about your wine habit. So whether you're a calorie counter or not, it's probably useful to know exactly how wine contributes (or doesn't) to your intake. 'Most alcoholic drinks contain traces of vitamins and minerals, but not usually in amounts that make any significant contribution to our diet'. So the calories there are 'empty' ones, apparently. 'Because alcohol is made from sugar or starch, it contains lots of calories – seven calories a gram in fact, almost as many as pure fat!' the Drink Aware website explains. I'm sorry to have to tell you that, actually, alcohol doesn't have any nutritional value. READ MORE: A Selection Of Alcohol-Free Drinks That Don't Taste Awfulīecause of this separate association, whenever we do consider alcoholic drinks as calorific, it often then becomes a matter of swapping or exchanging that large glass of Sauvignon for a food item at a different point in the day to make that last minute trip to the pub at the end of the day possible.Īnd while that's problematic on it's own, food and drink items aren't necessarily interchangeable in that way anyway because, well, duh, swapping that banana for a wine isn't going to play off in the same way when we get down to the legitimate nitty gritty important stuff of carbs, protein, fiber and so on. Well, all except how they contribute to our calorie intake. We never learn from our hangovers (or the fear of having text an ex/said something inappropriate/generally made a fool of ourselves, for that matter) but nevertheless, all of the side effects of drinking alcohol hold a pretty fixed place in our periphery vision. Shock horror, wine has calories too! But then again, I suppose we’ve got a completely separate, messed up relationship with alcohol all on it’s own. But even now, the huge factor that’s often been left out of the equation is the numbers that alcohol accounts for. ![]() Needless to say, young women of the 80s, 90s and 00s were heavily subject to the mixed and missed messaging of the fact that actually, following a healthy diet is way more complex than sticking to a rogue number of calories. The shady side of the calorie coin, is the competitive, obsessive and neglectful aspect that too easily becomes a symptom of counting and tracking those pesky little numbers. Yes, they exist and yes, at the core of having an understanding of what and how much we’re eating, but over the years I’m sure many of us have each found ourselves in the midst of a murky relationship with the drama of counting them. Data from Drinkaware.Calories are bullshit. We’re not advocating you drink 100ml of Gin! Incidentally, whilst a single Gin doesn’t look to fattening, when you add in a regular tonic, its comparable with wine. The calories per 100ml column, is included so you can compare, for example drinking beer or cola. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the table below, we have looked at typical figures for drink categories, there are small variance between brands and sub-types. We all know that alcohol is fattening, but how does it compare with soft drinks. Calories Counting – How Alcoholic Drinks Compare Not surprisingly, manufacturers have reacted with some drinks have been reformulated to get them below the thresholds. The tax applies to soft drinks only for those with 5-8g sugar added per 100ml, the tax is 18p per litre, those with over 8g of sugar added, it is 24p per litre. The recently introduced Sugar Tax, is a first step in fighting the problem. This is leading to increased hospital admissions and a rise in Diabetes Type 2. 35% are overweight, together over 60% are weighing more than they should. According to recent government figures, 26% are obese of which nearly 3% are morbidly obese. ![]()
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