Alcohol can add heaps to your kilojoule count, here’s what to choose and what to ditch.
Regular cider:
Choose: Savanna Light 571 kJ | 3% alc | 16.3 g sugar/340 ml bottle
Ditch: Redd’s Dry 850 kJ | 5% alc | 20.8 g sugar/340 ml bottle
Sweet cider:
Choose: Brutal Fruit 673.75 kJ | 4.5% alc | 18.4 g sugar/275 ml bottle
Ditch: Smirnoff Spin 747 kJ | 5% alc | 18.2 g sugar/300 ml bottle
Beer:
Choose: Windhoek Light 415 kJ | 2.4% alc | 10 g sugar/340 ml bottle
Ditch: Millers 578 kJ | 4.7% alc | 6.4 g sugar/340 ml bottle
Wine:
Choose: Dry wine 340 kJ | Trace sugar/120 ml glass
Ditch: Sweet wine 440 kJ | | 5 g sugar/120ml glass
Non-alcoholic:
Choose: Coke Light and Lemon 1.7 kJ | 0 g sugar/200 ml glass
Ditch: Cola tonic and lemonade 555 kJ | 33.8 g sugar/200 ml glass
Be a party smarty
Johannesburg dietitian Zelda Ackerman suggests these tips for choosing your tipple:
- Check the energy values of drinks, the more sugar a drink has, the more kilojoules you’re consuming. Ciders are highest at 850 kJ per 340 ml; beers are around 600 kJ per 340 ml; while spirits have the highest alcohol content but almost no sugar.
- Kilojoule-wise, the best mixers are water or soda water, or diet cold drinks. Steer clear of fizzy drinks, some of which contain the equivalent of 10 teaspoons of sugar.
- Drink responsibly… the general guideline for overall health is one drink for a woman and two drinks for a man per day — and this doesn’t mean you can accumulate your quota during the week and drink seven in one night!
Would lov 2 know the kcal count for Vawter?
I recently found out that I am allergic to the following: sulphites and food additives, dairy and sugar. Is there any alcohol that I can drink? Someone said that I can drink vodka – but with what? I can’t drink neat alcohol. I used to drink savanah lite before my test results came back and I haven’t touched any alcohol since…please help.