Lucifer

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Okay, practically everything you buy now has a little chart somewhere on it with the "nutritional value" of that food or drink... even bottled water lists it's "nutritional value".

So... why isn't there a little chart on whiskey? Or rum? Or vodka?

My opinion on the matter is the FDA doesn't want to admit alcohol could possibly HAVE any nutritional value...

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Ol' Patty

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I have a habit of looking at the ingredients of anything that I see around me. I am disappointed every time I pick up something alcoholic and it doesn't have any of that stuff on there. What kind of nutritional value could it have?

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Lucifer

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Not sure... I've heard from my uncles that if you let the alcohol evaporate from beer, you basically have liquid bread... they used to give that to children as a home remedy. I was curious how different or similar it's nutritional value might be from bread.

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Who decides what is sane and what is not? The majority? What if they are the ones who are truly insane?

Guildenstern: I think I have it. A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.
Rosencrantz: Or just as mad.
G: Or just as mad.
R: And he does both.
G: So there you are.
R: Stark raving sane.
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

STFU wiredos
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Ol' Patty

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Wow.. That's extremely interesting. I'm going to post back here once I see if I can't do a little research into it. If you don't beat me to it anyway.

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Lucifer

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Found this:

Alcohol and Calories

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Who decides what is sane and what is not? The majority? What if they are the ones who are truly insane?

Guildenstern: I think I have it. A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.
Rosencrantz: Or just as mad.
G: Or just as mad.
R: And he does both.
G: So there you are.
R: Stark raving sane.
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard

STFU wiredos
- Victoira

yossarian

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believe it or not, there's actually calories from alcohol.... but i've always wondered the same thing... that is why the nutritional facts labels aren't mandatory for such products.

To put things in perspective... there is appx 4 cals per gram of carbohydrates, 4 cals per gram of protein, and 9 cals per gram of fat.

And as for alcohol: there are 7 calories per gram of alcohol. besides beers and wines (which are loaded with carbohydrates), pure grain alcohol is appx 200 calories per ounce of alcohol. there is some equation considering different proofs.