The beer, the liquid bread
The beer is a liquid bread, that has no nutritional information.
The process of obtaining
the beer is, at the beginning, similar to get the bread.
The ingredients are the
same cereal, water and yeast.
The two products differ
during processing, but the final results are very similar.
The analysis nutritional
of the bread is: carbohydrates, fats and proteins, in
the beer is: carbohydrates, fat, protein and alcohol.
The substantial difference
is that the bread is solid while the beer is liquid and contains
ethanol.
The alcohol content makes
the beer, a liquid bread, then is no longer considered a food, but an
alcoholic beverage, and as such, the legislation does not impose a
nutrition label,
Nutritional labelling on alcoholic beverage packaging is voluntary in most countries
Due to this lack, the
consumer is not able to know what is drinking or rather how it is
feeding.
In some countries also do
not find the words "contains gluten ", and we must
remember also that the yeasts, can cause intolerance.
It 's almost impossible to
know how many types of beer there are in the world, but is
certain, we don't find a beer like the other
The water, the method of
preparation, hops, fermentation aromas make the beer a unique
product.
Guinness dark beer (330 ml)
Carbohydrates g | Protein g | Fat g | Alcohol in vol. | kcal |
13.2 | 1.65 | 3.3 | 4.2 % | 157 |
Tennent's Super (330ml)
Carbohydrates g | Protein g | Fat g | Alcohol in vol. | kcal |
0 | 0 | 0 | 9.0 % | 175 |
Heineken
Carbohydrates g | Protein g | Fat g | Alcohol in vol. | kcal |
11.5 | 0 | 0 | 5.0 % | 150 |
Bud Select 55
Carbohydrates g | Protein g | Fat g | Alcohol in vol. | kcal |
1.8 | 0 | 0 | 2.4 % | 55 |
When we drink a beer, we
can introduce to a share of carbohydrates and also small part of
protein and fat or introduce only alcohol ABV, depending the beer we
consume.
This brief overview has
been made of commercial beers, but what we know of the craft beers?
Most
breweries don’t provide the nutrition data for their beers.
Using
a few basic assumptions and information that many breweries do
provide (like ABV and O.G.), we can achieve a relatively accurate
calculation of this information.
We know the type of beer
"Lager, Stout, Weiss, IPA ... etc, etc", the alcohol
content ABV (some conversion degrees Plato) sometimes, the much
discussed IBU ( International Bitterness Unit) which should indicate
the bitterness of beer and a description made by bier sommeliers.
Beer is an anonymous food
for informational nutrition, just an alcoholic beverage.
The consumer, until it
will be indicated the nutritional values, will assume a quantity of
bread or pure alcohol, and calories, without taking into
account the specifics of carbohydrates, proteins and fats.
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