How Come Liquor Doesn’t Have Nutrition Facts Printed On It?
Posted by Zolly | Under Nutrition Saturday Nov 28, 2009I’ve been downing a liter of Bailey’s irish cream each day for the past week. Today is the first day that I consider that it might have something other than calorie-less & fat-free alcohol in it. Probably a lot of sugar too?
Rules governing alcoholic-beverage labeling suffer from jurisdictional gaps between the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Treasury Department’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB, formerly the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms). The FDA can weigh in on alcoholic- beverage labeling in only a small number of cases. And, TTB has no institutional expertise in diet or nutrition. Adding further confusion are TTB’s inconsistent standards for beer, wine, and hard liquor, and the abundance of products that increasingly blur those three traditional categories of alcoholic beverages.
BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING NUTRITIONAL ABOUT LIQUOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Because you don’t drink it for it’s nutritional value.
Because it has very little nutritional value.