Questions tagged [nutrition]
10 questions
4
votes
1 answer
Does calorie count on a can of beer account for calories in the alcohol?
I was having a discussion with a friend about the amount of calories in various kinds of beer, light beers and seltzers and he said that the calorie information in the nutrition section of the can does not account for the amount of calories you gain…
da66en
- 141
- 2
3
votes
4 answers
Which are the most caloric beers? Are there, say, visual criteria to identify them?
Is there a visual criterion to roughly estimate the order of calories a beer contains?
Specifically, I wonder if "the darker the beer, the more energetic value it has" holds [1]. Please, prove or disprove.
[1] (What lead to this belief: When I…
c.p.
- 141
- 6
3
votes
1 answer
What is the "nutritional calorie" count of beer?
Beer has a fairly high calorie count - roughly between 150 and 300kcal per serving of 0.5l depending on kind. A significant percent of that is alcohol though, which is fully metabolized without any reserves whatsoever being retained - empty calories…
SF.
- 1,004
- 7
- 16