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People make alcohol beverages from virtually every sugar-containing, carbohydrate food found on the planet, but the most common choices are cereal grains, fruit, honey, and potatoes All these foods produce alcohol when fermented, but the alcohols have slightly different flavors and colors Table 10-2 shows you which foods are used to produce the different kinds of alcohol beverages

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Agave plant Apples Barley Corn Grapes and other fruits Honey Milk Potatoes Rice Rye Sugar cane Wheat

Tequila Hard cider Beer, various distilled spirits Bourbon, corn whiskey, beer Wine Mead Kumiss (koumiss), kefir Vodka Sake, rice wine Whiskey Rum Beer, various distilled spirits

No alcohol beverage is 100 percent alcohol The beverage is always alcohol plus water and, if it s a wine or beer, some residue of the foods from which it was made You can tell how much alcohol is actually in an alcohol beverage through the following two ways:

Alcohol by volume: Alcohol by volume measures the amount of alcohol as a percentage of all the liquid in the container For example, if your container holds 10 ounces of liquid and 1 ounce of that liquid is alcohol, the product is 10 percent alcohol by volume A simple equation: Alcohol content Total amount of liquid = Alcohol by volume The label on every bottle of wine and spirits sold in the United States must show the alcohol content as alcohol by volume (written as 12% alcohol by volume or Alc 12% by vol check out Figure 10-1) When talking to each other, people who make and market alcohol beverages sometimes use the shorthand abbreviation ABV, but this isn t permitted on beverage labels For reasons too complicated to explain in less than, say, ten pages, using the term alcohol by volume or proof on beer bottles or cans is optional Figure 10-1 shows you where to find the ABV on a typical wine label Proof: The label may also show proof, an older way of measuring the alcohol in an alcohol beverage Proof is two times the alcohol by volume For example, an alcohol beverage that s 10 percent alcohol by volume is 20 proof Simple equation: Alcohol by volume 2 = Proof

Government warning: (1) According to the Surgeon General, women should not drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy because of the risk of birth defects (2) Consumption of alcoholic beverages impairs your ability to drive a car or operate machinery, and may cause health problems

On its own, alcohol has no nutrients zero, zilch, zip other than energy (7 calories per gram), so distilled spirits such as whiskey have nothing to offer, nutritionally speaking, other than calories Beer, wine, cider, and other fermented beverages contain some of the food from which they were made, so they also contain small amounts of proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals Tables 10-3 and 10-4 show the nutrient content for one serving of several types of alcohol beverages As you can imagine, the amounts listed here are averages For example, some sweet wines may have higher amounts of carbohydrates (sugars) than this chart shows, but very dry (not sweet) wines have less Just go with the flow

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Beer Regular Light Spirits 86 proof/43% ABV Wine Red table wine White table wine 5 oz 5 oz 15 oz 12 oz 12 oz

105 g

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Beer 002 mg 002 mg 005 mg 14 mcg 14 mg 42 mg 01 NE 74 mg 009 mg 18 mcg 14 mg 50 mg 01 NE 96 mg 14 mg 14 mg

002 mg 02 mcg 13 mg 26 mg Source: USDA National Nutrient Database, wwwnalusdagov/fnic/foodcomp/search

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