| 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.
We do not use nutrition aggregators: for the same product they can differ by
75%, and a field nobody ever filled in would reach us 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. |
| When a value is missing |
The box stays empty. We do not put an estimate in place of a value we do not
know, because afterwards nobody can tell the two apart.
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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 zero sugars but a value for carbohydrates. In a liqueur
carbohydrates are sugar, and with that value the energy adds up.
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| calculated |
Sugar is not declared. It was calculated from the calories, with the method
described below.
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| not documented |
No accepted source publishes it.
Today 149 profiles out of 194.
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| inconsistent declaration |
The producer declares a value that does not square with the alcohol content:
for the math to work, the sugar would have to be negative. The profile shows
both numbers without choosing one.
Today 3 profiles, all from official sources.
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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 most common case is a
label that declares the calories and not the sugars.
Today 35 profiles out of 194 have sugar calculated this way.
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| How it is calculated |
If the product contains only alcohol and carbohydrates, the declared calories
are the sum of two terms, and one of the two 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,
and not the physiological ones. The producer calculated the calories with
these, so working back to the sugar needs the same ones.
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| When it is not done |
The calculation holds only if, besides alcohol, sugar is the only thing that
brings calories. So creams, egg liqueurs and any product with fats or proteins
stay out, because there the unknowns become more than one. Labels where fats
and proteins do not appear at all stay out too, because a missing value is not
worth zero. We do not use it on spirits because their sugar is almost absent,
and what came out would be a rounding error.
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| How precise it is |
A few grams per liter, almost all due to the legal tolerance on the declared
alcohol content
(±0.3 points).
The error in grams is roughly always the same, but it weighs differently from
one product to another, because it comes from a difference between close
numbers: on a sweet amaro it stays under 2%, on a very dry liqueur it can
exceed 30%.
Each profile states its own. Above 15% the value should be read as a range,
and the profile flags it.
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| Saturation and bitterness index |
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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, so "34% saturation" does
not mean that bottle would take three times as much. The value serves to
compare different liqueurs on the same scale.
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| Bitterness index |
It is our own assessment, not a measured value.
A 1 to 10 scale anchored to fixed references
(Aperol 3, Amaro Averna 6, Campari 7, Fernet Branca 9): a new profile is placed
relative to those.
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| Per how much |
Tables are per 100 ml. If a label declares per 100 g, the profile flags it and
leaves the value as it is: converting it would need the density of the
liqueur, which producers do not publish.
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| Limits and disclaimers |
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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: when in doubt, the label in your hand is what
counts.
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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: if a value is missing here, it
does not mean the substance is not in 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 consume them, and they are not meant for anyone
under 21.
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Names and trademarks belong to their owners. liquori.it is not affiliated with,
sponsored or authorized by the producers mentioned, and links to their websites
serve as references, without implying any endorsement.
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