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?

  • pHr34kY@lemmy.world
    71·
    9 months ago

    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
      91·
      9 months ago

      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.

    • Cort@lemmy.world
      21·
      9 months ago

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

    • Spyro@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      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.