Here’s how many calories are REALLY in your favourite drinks… and it’s bad news if you like cocktails
TWO glasses of wine could be worse for your waistline than a McDonald’s cheeseburger.
Alcohol Health Alliance UK analysed the calorie and sugar content of 30 red, white, rose, fruit and sparkling wines and found a bottle of plonk can contain 598 calories and a whopping 59g of sugar.
Government guidelines recommend adults have no more than 30g of “free” sugars a day.
Unlike non-alcoholic drinks that are required to provide nutritional information, none of the bottles of wine displayed the sugar content and only one in five showed the calories.
Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, chairman of the alliance, said: “Alcohol’s current exemption from food and drink labelling rules is absurd. Shoppers who buy milk or orange juice have nutritional information right at their fingertips. But this is not required for alcohol – a product fuelling obesity.”
The study also found 3.4million adults drink an additional day’s worth of calories each week. Here’s how two of your fave tipples compare to fast food.
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