Poll of the Day > Yesterday somebody had a can of a coffee drink with alcohol, and i noticed...

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It was a coffee beverage with 5% alcohol in it, in a can. It tasted just like one of those premade starbucks drinks they also sell in bottles/cans at grocery stores. no alcohol flavor at all in it. Forget what company made it but it was not starbucks.

But what gets me is: coffee drink in a can with no alcohol: MUST HAVE NUTRITION FACTS ON CAN. Add 5% alcohol? FUCK THE NUTRITION FACTS.

You take a product already bad for you and add in something almost unambiguously worse for you(alcohol) and you can just skip the nutrition facts. Some people will say "who needs/wants to know the nutrition facts of their alcoholic beverage" and that is missing the point. Add in one ingredient worse for you and you can just skip it? what kinda logic is this?

That is hilariously American.
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what was it specifically

don't think kahlua comes in a can

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It was this

https://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2020/08/18/17334835/11_oz_can_Mocha_Hard_Latte.png

Not that flavor but same deal. Zero alcohol flavor. If you put this next to a can of the same thing but with no alcohol you couldn't even tell the difference between the two. One needs nutrition facts, the one that is factually worse for you would not.

UNLESS they were sold in like a 4/6/8/12/whatever pack box, and that had the facts on it, then I would be wrong.

I've wondered that before, too. I really want to know the nutrition facts on alcohol.

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This can also had no ingredients listed on it either, like a can of coca cola does(which also has the nutrition facts on it).

I am not sure of the laws, so maybe I am totally off base here, but I feel like i'm on to something. maybe.

is it possible that they were on there, just not in the typical boxed list format?

i know some skinny cans like that just have a tiny text paragraph that reads it

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faramir77 posted...

I've wondered that before, too. I really want to know the nutrition facts on alcohol.

Some brands do put it on there, such as some Diageo products(for example, Crown Royal in the US has the traditional nutrition facts label on their boxes of Crown), or in small print like you can hardly see giving very basic info(mainly calories and carbs) such as I think a can of Coors Light. the vast majority of alcoholic products do not have any nutrition info of any sort on it.

Crown is easy. one 1.5oz serving has 96 calories straight.

No, I was looking for the small print and didn't find it.

they straight up don't even have it on their website

huh



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Alcoholic beverages are not regulated by the FDA, but by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, and the TTB doesn't require nutritional labeling. Consumer advocates have been pressuring the agency for years to require the labels, but the alcohol manufacturers have fought back. The labels are currently optional but not required.

The TTB does require a label to show the alcohol percentage on wine over 14% ABV and all distilled liquors; the labels are optional for wine under 14% and beer. Up until 1995 it was illegal to list the alcohol content on beer.

TIL: The TTB regulates kombucha if it reaches 0.5% ABV at any point during production. If it remains under 0.5%, it falls under FDA regulations.

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

That is hilariously American.

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/coffee-shops-serving-alcohol-london

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captpackrat posted...

Alcoholic beverages are not regulated by the FDA, but by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, and the TTB doesn't require nutritional labeling. Consumer advocates have been pressuring the agency for years to require the labels, but the alcohol manufacturers have fought back. The labels are currently optional but not required.

The TTB does require a label to show the alcohol percentage on wine over 14% ABV and all distilled liquors; the labels are optional for wine under 14% and beer. Up until 1995 it was illegal to list the alcohol content on beer.

TIL: The TTB regulates kombucha if it reaches 0.5% ABV at any point during production. If it remains under 0.5%, it falls under FDA regulations.

Well this is a nice, thorough answer. Kinda dumb but at least I got it clarified.

SunWuKung420 posted...

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/coffee-shops-serving-alcohol-london

You thought you did something, didn't you?

The lack of nutritional information, numpty.
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yeah don't drink these

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

That is hilariously American.

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damn son. yeah i am not a fan of alcohol+sugar. though id for sure have one on its own without the alcohol, but even then meh.

likehelly posted...

yeah don't drink these

Why not?
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Loaded with calories and sugar on top of containing alcohol. Upper and downer in the same can sounds....bad.

argonautweakend posted...

Loaded with calories and sugar on top of containing alcohol. Upper and downer in the same can sounds....bad.

I wouldn't buy them anyway. I could spike my own coffee if I wanted. Obviously not when I'm working.
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I just had some NA beer the other day, and I'm pretty sure it also had no nutrition facts.

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70 calories in a shot of alcohol. 150+ in a can of beer.

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argonautweakend posted...

Loaded with calories and sugar on top of containing alcohol. Upper and downer in the same can sounds....bad.

I've spiked my own coffee and honestly I prefer it that way. But NyQuil and DayQuil don't effect me the same as it seems to literally anyone else so idek.

To be clear I'm not talking about recreational use of those or something. I just have to take NyQuil during the day and DayQuil at night because NyQuil actually makes me hyper and DayQuil makes me sluggish and loopy. So IDEK if the whole upper+downer is affecting me the same as it might someone else.

Revelation34 posted...

Why not?

because in top of the massive amount of sugars and carbs in one tiny ass can, the alcohol is then converted by your body into more carbs in top of that.

basically you would be drinking liquid diabetes

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likehelly posted...

basically you would be drinking liquid diabetes

Ah...


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same as an american large soft drink tbh

ChaosAzeroth posted...

I've spiked my own coffee and honestly I prefer it that way. But NyQuil and DayQuil don't effect me the same as it seems to literally anyone else so idek.

To be clear I'm not talking about recreational use of those or something. I just have to take NyQuil during the day and DayQuil at night because NyQuil actually makes me hyper and DayQuil makes me sluggish and loopy. So IDEK if the whole upper+downer is affecting me the same as it might someone else.

Even the prescription sleeping ones don't work on me.
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