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Ethanol is the primary source of calories in both rum and vodka. They are, for dieting purposes, equivalent. Ethanol is actually second only to fat in caloric
by jlgreco 13y ago
Ethanol is the primary source of calories in both rum and vodka. They are, for dieting purposes, equivalent.
Ethanol is actually second only to fat in caloric density, though thankfully you don't really consume massive amounts of it without knowing it. ;)
- marme 13y agoethanol has a high caloric content but almost none of those calories can be absorbed by the body. It is a fundamental flaw in the way food calories are measured. To measure the calories of food you put the food in a sealed container under a vial of water and burn it, the food has 1 calorie for ever degree centigrade it made a liter of water rise. ethanol obviously burns extremely well so by this test it has high caloric content but that does not mean your body can convert ethanol to fat, sugar, ATP or anything else useful to the body. The vast majority of it is processed by the liver and expelled by the kidneys
- TeMPOraL 13y agoCalories is not the metric important for me here (every alcoholic beverage has plenty of it, so standard caution applies), it's carbohydrate count - too much and you're out of ketosis for good.