Why doesn't alcohol have nutrition facts on the bottle?

Question

I'm sure alcohol such as wine and vodka are packed with carbohydrates and calories.. why are the manufacturers required to put nutritional information on the bottle?

Answer 1

because there isn't any in it

Answer 2

This is from:

http://www.cspinet.org/new/200312161.htm...

"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."

The article was written 5 years ago, but still no labels.  The alcoholic beverage industries are against it, for obvious reasons, i.e. alcoholic beverages are not all that healthy when portrayed by food labels.

To be fair, alcoholic beverages are not food, I would not go so far as call them poison as the above answerer did, but alcohol has a certain stigma, and obviously, dangers.

It would be helpful to know calories and carbs for those on diets that choose to indulge.  As a rule, if they make any claims to be "light" or "low-carb" they must provide the numbers on the label, which they do, you can find it on all light beers.

I would stay tuned, as wine bottles may soon contain information on the labels of many states.  In the case of wine it may be a good development if they can list the beneficial aspects of wine that have been in the news lately, such as Polyphenols, antioxidants, flavonoids, and resveratrol.

Actually, vodka has zero carbs, and most dry wine is very low in carbs.  They are, though, filled with empty calories for the most part.

Here is a helpful site with calorie, carb and nutrition facts for many beer, wine, spirits and mixed drinks:

http://www.calorieking.com/foods/

Answer 3

Same reason as they don't put it on poison bottles!

It isn't meant to be drunk - it's poison!