The nutritional value of wine

paulamathers · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:43 pm Post subject: The nutritional value of wine

My sister's doing a food course at college and is looking at wine at the moment. Does anyone know the nutritional value of Riesling, or where would be the best place to find this out? Its a German wine - if it has any nutritional value?!

guido · Site Admin Joined: Oct 18, 2004 Posts: 381 Location: Italy

As every other alcoholic beverage, wine hasn't valuable nutritional value, but quite a nice amount of calories.

Winemakers are not required to disclose ingredients and/or nutritional labeling of the wine.
Different wineries, making the same wine, can have slighty different values, so unless you ask the winemaker (who probably wont answer) there is no way to know what's in the bottle.

Anyway, according to a study done by USDA (US department of agricolture ) the following set of nutritional values can be applied to almost every kind of wine.

Nutrition Facts RED WINE
Serving Size 5 oz (147g) - Servings Per Container 5
Amount Per Serving
Calories 102.06
Calories from Fat 0%

% daily values
Total Fat 0g 0%
Saturated Fat 0g 0%
Cholesterol 0g 0%
Sodium 7.09mg 0.3%
Total Carbohydrate 2.41g 1%
Dietary Fiber 0g 0%
Sugars 0g 0%
Protein 0.28g 0.44%
Vitamin A 0%
Vitamin C 0%
Calcium 0%
Iron 0%
Thiamine .01%
Riboflavin .04%
Niacin .11%
Folate 0%

Nutrition Facts WHITE WINE
Serving Size 5 oz (147g) - Servings Per Container 5

Amount Per Serving
Calories 96.39
Calories from Fat 0 %

% daily values
Total Fat 0g 0%
Saturated Fat 0g 0%
Cholesterol 0g 0%
Sodium 7.09mg 0.3%
Total Carbohydrate 1.13g 0.35%
Dietary Fiber 0g 0%
Sugars 0g 0%
Protein 0.14g 0.22%
Vitamin A 0%
Vitamin C 0%
Calcium 0%
Iron 0%
Thiamine .01%
Riboflavin .01%
Niacin .1%
Folate 0%

Nutrition Facts DESSERT WINE
Serving Size 3 oz (88g) - Servings Per Container 4
Amount Per Serving
Calories 130.13
Calories from Fat 0 %

% daily values
Total Fat 0g 0%
Saturated Fat 0g 0%
Cholesterol 0g 0%
Sodium 7.65mg 0.3%
Total Carbohydrate 10.04g 5%
Dietary Fiber 0g 0%
Sugars 8g
Protein 0.17g 0.27%
Vitamin A 0%
Vitamin C 0%
Calcium 0%
Iron 0%
Thiamine .02%
Riboflavin .02%
Niacin .18%
Folate 0%

Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

More informations can be found here:
http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-C00001-01c2102.html
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In vino veritas!

paulamathers · Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:15 pm Post subject:

Thank you x