Nutrition Facts On Alcoholic Drinks?

Claire — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:25:08 +0000

Ever wondered how many calories were in the (regular) beer, shot of vodka or tequila you drank? The Treasury Dept. is considering requiring all alcoholic beverages, including beer, wine and liquor – to have nutritional information on the bottles where you can read the calories, carbs, percentage of alcohol, even the serving size of whatever you’re drinking.
This was recently on FitSugar and it seemed from the comments that most people would go for it. Let’s face it, when it comes to dieting, calories (and carbs, etc) do matter in the grand scheme of things. You can always look up the information online, but wouldn’t it be nice to be able to compare nutrition facts when you’re actually in the store?
However, a rule like this would be years in the making – specifically, 3 years after a majority agreed on it (that’s set for October 29th).
What do you think? Would you like to be informed, or would you prefer that things stay the way they are?