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I feel like it would be useful to know exactly how much alcohol is in a can or a bottle. Also why is alcohol the only thing measured in percentages and not sugar or caffeine or medicine?

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[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Australia does this right. Everything has a percentage.

Nutritional panels have:

  • Serving size
  • Servings in the pack
  • Energy, sugar, fat salt. etc per 100ml or 100g, and per serving.

Alcoholic beverages have "standard drinks" per bottle which factors in ABV and volume.

I can quickly see that a drink has 9g sugar per 100ml and know it's 9% sugar. Easy.

[–] Vash63@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Isn't this standard everywhere? I know it's like this in the Netherlands. I assume in America they give you the bald eagle feathers per egg or something too.

[–] jmd_akbar@aussie.zone 2 points 11 months ago

America give something useful for customers? No way... /s

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So, in a drink you show amount of protein as volume per 100ml?

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Here's a Starbucks Espresso marked as 2g of protein per 100ml and 4.4g per serve.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Therefore, it is not %. One is g., another is ml.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] MxM111@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

I surely hope that espresso is NOT water.

[–] Spyro@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sucrose has a solubility of about 200 g/100 mL water. I’m in American so I’ve never seen Australian food labels, but would they really label a sugar-saturated drink as having 200% sugar? I guess technically you can do that, but it seems a bit weird. In my experience % is usually reserved for liquid in liquid solutions, like alcoholic beverages.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The best example is the slab 'o' Coke from Woolies.

Sugar is marked as 10.6g/100ml and 39.8g per 375ml serve (yes, stupidly large), and 24 serves in the pack.

Syrups are typically sold in grams. But 200g of sugar and 100ml of water would be more than 100ml of total product by volume, and 300g by wileight. If anything, it would be labeled 66% sucrose because it's one third water.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Wouldn't it be lower than 8% sugar by volume since sugar is more dense than water?