Re: The average calorie count for wine

[Guest guest]

Well, calories in wine can vary hugely from about 15

per ounce up to 40 per ounce. To find the calorie

content in your favorite wine, just go to nutritiondata.com

and enter 'wine' in the input field.

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> Dorothy Gaiter and Brecher, the wine columnists of the Wall

Street Journal, answered a reader's question on the average calorie

count for wine.

> Happy Holidays,

> Arturo

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> Counting Calories

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> What is the average calorie count for wine? Does it vary greatly

between Chardonnay, Zinfandel, Cabernet, Pinot Grigio or Merlot?

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> -- P. , ville, Ind.

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> About 125 calories seems like a good, round average for a 5-ounce

glass of table wine. Most of the calories in wine come from alcohol,

so the higher the alcohol, the higher the number of calories. And,

of course, sweetness adds calories, too. There is a fun calculator

online, compliments of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, that

breaks down all sorts of food and beverages by calories and other

nutritional measures. You can find it here:

www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search. Just type " wine " into the

keyword search, click the kind of wine you are searching for, and

check the box for " 1 serving 5 fl. oz. " The number after " kcal " on

the resulting chart is the calorie figure.

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> By DOROTHY J. GAITER AND JOHN BRECHER

> Wine Notes

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[Guest guest]

It's much better than a blanket statement that a

glass of wine has 125 calories, but in comparison

to other nutrition tools, I certainly have not compared

nutritiondata.com to the bunch.

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> > Well, calories in wine can vary hugely from about 15

> > per ounce up to 40 per ounce. To find the calorie

> > content in your favorite wine, just go to nutritiondata.com

> > and enter 'wine' in the input field.

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> I nutritiondata.com any " better " than CRON-o-Meter or DWIDP?

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> Thanks,

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> Tom

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[Guest guest]

Hi Orb:

Overwhelmingly the most widely consumed wine products are what are

called " table wines " . They generally have about 12% alcohol and

close to zero sugar content. So for them the 'blanket statement' is

a very adequate approximation.

Not many people regularly drink high alcohol or high sugar

products. And when they do, a standard glass is NOT 5 ounces. It

is much smaller.

So, 125 calories is a very good number for most people to use most of

the time. Even when they are consuming (much smaller quantities of)

Port or Sherry, for example.

Rodney.

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> > > Well, calories in wine can vary hugely from about 15

> > > per ounce up to 40 per ounce. To find the calorie

> > > content in your favorite wine, just go to nutritiondata.com

> > > and enter 'wine' in the input field.

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> > I nutritiondata.com any " better " than CRON-o-Meter or DWIDP?

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> > Thanks,

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> > Tom

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