that all alcoholic beverages should have labels with the nutritional facts as well as the ingredients?
2006-08-13 08:03:14 · 7 answers · asked by miss advice 4 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
It would be nice to have the nutritional facts! I was looking all over a bottle of Smirnoff Twisted Wild Grape the other day for the calorie count, but there wasn't one. So yes. I think that if other food and drinks have to have a nutrition label than alcohol should be no different.
2006-08-13 12:06:22 · answer #1 · answered by kewhatley 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
FDA already mandates this!!!!!!! But FDA by law only regulates wines of 6.9% alcohol or less
(such as hard cider - which is apple wine; check
cider or perry labels your next trip to your alcoholic beverage store and you will see).
All other alcoholic beverages (in the USA) are regulated not by FDA but by BATF. There is no political constituancy for nutritional labeling; in fact most anti-alcohol groups fear that such a requirement would open up the gates for alcohol producers to make and promote vitamin and mineral enriched products, giving suggestion (like when cigarettes first had filters in the 1950s) that they are more healthful.
2006-08-13 08:45:43 · answer #2 · answered by Hank 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not at all.
We're reaching a point where the government mandates so much that the consumer doesn't have to think for even a fraction of a minute. It's carrying over to the rest of their lives where they think that somebody else (government maybe) shoul think and take responsibility for them so they don't have to.
Enough already...think for yourself or be the next Darwin award.
If it's important enough for you to know the nutritional facts about any product, ask the manufacturer. Put forth an ounce of effort on your own part and look for it of your own accord so that the rest of the world doesn't have to be cluttered and obfuscated with ninety million disclaimers, warning labels, and useless information placards that render the need or even desire to think moot.
Ask yourself how on earth did the human race survive until 2006 without nutritional information labels on the mayonnaise. Amazing, innit?
2006-08-13 12:21:30 · answer #3 · answered by Trid 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No because any one with any common sense should know that most alcoholic beverages have almost no nutritional value at all.
2006-08-13 11:13:36 · answer #4 · answered by gigantor985 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It has the alcohol content.....that's what is important
2006-08-13 08:17:51 · answer #5 · answered by Auntiem115 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It would be nice-everything else we consume does, so I'm all for it.
2006-08-13 08:18:48 · answer #6 · answered by missywalks 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
% of alcohol is all that matters!
2006-08-13 08:08:13 · answer #7 · answered by lolitakali 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋