| Where the numbers come from |
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| Accepted sources |
The label on the bottle, the producer's official e-label, the producer's website.
Not nutrition aggregators: for the same product they can differ by 75%, and
a field nobody ever filled in would show up here as "0 g of sugars".
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| When it is not the producer |
The profile says so plainly, naming who publishes the value. |
| What we do not know |
Stays empty. We do not put a plausible value in place of an unknown one: an
estimate dressed as a measurement can no longer be told apart from real data,
not even by us.
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| The labels under the numbers |
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| from the label |
The value is the one the producer declares. |
| from carbohydrates |
The label declares 0 g of sugars but some carbohydrates. In a liqueur
carbohydrates are sugar, and they are the amounts that make the energy add up.
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| calculated |
Sugar is not declared and was calculated from the energy. How, below. |
| not documented |
No accepted source publishes it.
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| inconsistent declaration |
A number exists, but it does not square with the alcohol content: for the
math to work, the sugar would have to be negative. The profile shows both
values instead of publishing it.
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| Calculated sugar |
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| Why it is needed |
In the EU, drinks above 1.2% ABV are exempt from the nutrition declaration
(Art. 16(4) of EU Regulation 1169/2011), and producers who provide one anyway
may stop at the energy value alone (Art. 30(4)). So the usual case is: calories
yes, sugars no.
Today 10 of the 12 sugar values here are calculated this way.
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| How it is calculated |
If the product contains only alcohol and carbohydrates, the declared energy is
the sum of two terms, one of which is known: the other follows by difference.
sugar g/100 ml = (kcal per 100 ml − ABV ×
0.789 ×
7) /
4
7 kcal/g for
alcohol and 4 for carbohydrates are the legal factors of Annex XIV of Regulation 1169/2011,
not the physiological ones: the producer calculated the energy with these, and
to invert a formula you need the one that produced it.
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| When it is not done |
Creams, egg liqueurs, anything with fats and proteins: there, more than one
term is unknown. Not even when fats and proteins are not declared at all,
because a missing field is not a field worth zero. And not on spirits, where
the real sugar is close to zero and the difference would be made of rounding.
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| How precise it is |
A few grams per liter, mostly due to the legal tolerance on the declared
alcohol content
(±0.3 points).
In absolute terms it is almost always the same; in proportion it is not,
because it is a difference between similar numbers: on a sweet amaro it is
under 2%, on a very dry liqueur it can exceed 30%.
Each profile states its own. Above 15%, the number should be read as a
range, and the profile says so.
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| Two numbers that are indices, not measurements |
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| Saturation |
The ratio between the sugar in the liqueur and the
894.7 g/l of a saturated solution of
sucrose in water at 20 °C.
Alcohol lowers the solubility of sugar considerably: "34% saturation" does
not mean that bottle would take three times as much. It serves to line up
different liqueurs on a single scale.
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| Bitterness index |
A judgment, not a measurement, and we say so because it looks like a number.
A 1 to 10 scale anchored to fixed references
(Aperol 3, Averna 6, Campari 7, Fernet Branca 9): a new profile is placed
relative to those, never in the abstract.
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| Per how much |
Tables are per 100 ml. When a label declares per 100 g the profile says so and
does not convert: that would need the density of the liqueur, which nobody
publishes.
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| What these profiles are not |
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| The bottle prevails |
Recipes change and labels with them, often without notice. A value checked
months ago may no longer hold: the label in your hand wins, not this page.
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| Ingredients and allergens |
Not listed. Anyone who must avoid milk, eggs, gluten, sulfites or sugars for
health reasons should read the product label: a missing value here does not
mean the substance is missing from the bottle.
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| Not advice |
The values have no medical or dietary purpose and do not replace the advice of
a professional. Alcohol is harmful to health: these pages describe products,
they do not invite you to drink them, and they are not meant for anyone under 21.
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