A Wine Label Won’t Show You Wine Nutritional Information or Analysis
Regulations in the U.S. and most other countries do not require wine producers to disclose ingredient or wine nutritional information on wine labels.
So there really no way to know the exact wine nutritional information or values of a given wine. So the best we can do is use the wine nutritional information from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and some 2008 wine nutritional public sources. This will give you a general idea of what to expect from a glass of dry red or dry white wine. Below we discuss the calories in wine and why it is hard to tell the exact number. See video from Nancy Miller below:
Sweet wines or even slightly sweet wines, like a White Zinfandel, Riesling or maybe a Takara Plum wine, will have more calories from the residual sugar and more carbohydrates than a fully dry red or dry white wines. Dry wine has no sugar left – it has all been converted to alcohol. Also wines that are stronger in alcohol content, like a Cabernet at 13%, Chardonnay at 13.5 % or a Port fortified wine, will have a few more wine calories because of the alcohol calories than the average 12% wine listed below.
Dry Red Wine Nutritional Information
Has no saturated fat. No cholesterol. Very low in sodium. Low in sugar.
Estimated Red Wine Nutritional Facts for dry red wine
- Serving size: 5 oz.
- Number servings per 750ml container: 5
- Calories: 102 calories
- Total fat: 0%
- Sodium : 7 mg or 0.3%
- Carbohydrate: 2.41mg or 1%
- Protein: 0.28g or 0.44%
- Niacin: .11%
No Vitamin A. No Vitamin C. No calcium. No Iron.
Finished wine does contain fermented grape juice, natural sulfites, yeast. There are a few other items during production but they do not remain in the finished wine product.
Dry White Wine Nutritional Information
Has no saturated fat. No cholesterol. Very low in sodium. Low in sugar.
Estimated White Wine Nutritional Facts for dry white wine
- Serving size: 5 oz.
- Number servings per 750ml container: 5
- Calories: 96 calories
- Total fat: 0%
- Sodium : 7 mg or 0.3%
- Carbohydrate: 1.13g or .35%
- Protein: 0.14g or 0.22%
- Thiamine: .01%
- Riboflavin: .01%
- Niacin: .1%
No Vitamin A. No Vitamin C. No calcium. No Iron.
Well, as you can see there isn’t much to tell nutritionally. A fact to keep in mind is that the calories come from residual sugar and alcohol. If you drink a sweeter wine it will have more calories than a dry wine. Most of the wine calories come from the alcohol so check the label. If the wine is above 12% alcohol it will have more calories than the average wine shown above in the wine nutritional information.
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Check out this video by Nancy Miller on wine nutritional information. She has a great formula for figuring out the calories if any wine for you calorie counters
