Why Are My Wine Calories Wrong? (or am i drunk)

terizius
terizius Posts: 425 Member
in Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building
So, Fat = 9 cals/gram, Carbs and Protein = 4 cals/gram. What many people don't know is that alcohol = 7 cals/gram.

Tonight, I had "some" wine. When I plugged it into MFP, it came up to 540 calories. MFP lists the carbs at 52 grams and the protein at 2 grams (who knew that wine has protein - bonus). That equals 216 calories. The particular wine I had is 10% alcohol by volume. So, 750ml of wine should equal 75ml of pure ethyl alcohol. Conveniently, 1 ml equals 1 gram (of water, so assuming wine and water have the same density). Therefore, 75ml of alcohol = 525 calories.

So, whats going on here? MFP says 540 calories but my calculations based on carbs, protein and alcohol = 741 calories.

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  • terizius
    terizius Posts: 425 Member
    Never mind. My initial assumptions were wrong. I always thought a 750ml bottle of wine was 4 glasses (20 ounces). Turns out, its 5.28 glasses. Math works out. I can now rest. :)
  • galgenstrick
    galgenstrick Posts: 2,086 Member
    52 grams of carbs is not correct. Should be closer to 20. There also probably isn't that much protein in wine either. Should be about 0.1g per 5 oz.
  • steff274
    steff274 Posts: 227 Member
    terizius wrote: »
    Never mind. My initial assumptions were wrong. I always thought a 750ml bottle of wine was 4 glasses (20 ounces). Turns out, its 5.28 glasses. Math works out. I can now rest. :)

    A bottle is 3 250ml glasses!! ;):p
  • melaniecheeks
    melaniecheeks Posts: 6,349 Member
    Is your glass half full or half empty? You need to define "glass".
  • Springfield1970
    Springfield1970 Posts: 1,945 Member
    What kind of wine has only 10% alcohol! You're bulking man, get those numbers up!
  • JLgettinghealthy
    JLgettinghealthy Posts: 39 Member
    just wanted to share my relief and gratitude that there are others out there logging an entire bottle of wine in their food diaries.
  • Wheelhouse15
    Wheelhouse15 Posts: 5,575 Member
    Springfield1970 wrote: »
    What kind of wine has only 10% alcohol! You're bulking man, get those numbers up!

    LOL.
  • mhankosk
    mhankosk Posts: 532 Member
    edited March 2015
    steff274 wrote: »
    terizius wrote: »
    Never mind. My initial assumptions were wrong. I always thought a 750ml bottle of wine was 4 glasses (20 ounces). Turns out, its 5.28 glasses. Math works out. I can now rest. :)

    A bottle is 3 250ml glasses!! ;):p

    A bottle of wine = one 750 ml glass..... just sayin ;)
  • JoRocka
    JoRocka Posts: 17,525 Member
    mhankosk wrote: »
    steff274 wrote: »
    terizius wrote: »
    Never mind. My initial assumptions were wrong. I always thought a 750ml bottle of wine was 4 glasses (20 ounces). Turns out, its 5.28 glasses. Math works out. I can now rest. :)

    A bottle is 3 250ml glasses!! ;):p

    A bottle of wine = one 750 ml glass..... just sayin ;)

    my kind of peoples right here.
  • aksteve777
    aksteve777 Posts: 184 Member
    Haha...same problem..wine tasting last Friday. ..i lost count at 10 glasses so...
  • ryanhorn
    ryanhorn Posts: 355 Member
    mhankosk wrote: »
    steff274 wrote: »
    terizius wrote: »
    Never mind. My initial assumptions were wrong. I always thought a 750ml bottle of wine was 4 glasses (20 ounces). Turns out, its 5.28 glasses. Math works out. I can now rest. :)

    A bottle is 3 250ml glasses!! ;):p

    A bottle of wine = one 750 ml glass..... just sayin ;)

    They really need to sell 3/4 or 1/2 bottles of wine. I can't bring myself to only leaving a quarter of the wine in the bottle, but at the same time, a whole bottle of wine has me getting crayyyyy.
  • charmmeth
    charmmeth Posts: 936 Member
    Buy a whole bottle of wine and a vacu-vin - simple. Just pump out the air and it keeps fine until you wan to drink the next glass. A lot cheaper than half bottles. :smile:
  • ryanhorn
    ryanhorn Posts: 355 Member
    charmmeth wrote: »
    Buy a whole bottle of wine and a vacu-vin - simple. Just pump out the air and it keeps fine until you wan to drink the next glass. A lot cheaper than half bottles. :smile:

    Whoa. I just googled this thing. I think you just changed my life forever.
  • Just_Ceci
    Just_Ceci Posts: 5,926 Member
    I scanned the barcode on one of my wine bottles. It came up serving size= 1/2 bottle. That's about right. I seriously probably underestimate my wine calories. I usually get 4 glasses out of a bottle.
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    Ceci_O_K wrote: »
    I scanned the barcode on one of my wine bottles. It came up serving size= 1/2 bottle. That's about right. I seriously probably underestimate my wine calories. I usually get 4 glasses out of a bottle.

    You need bigger wine glasses then

    Problem solved :)
  • Just_Ceci
    Just_Ceci Posts: 5,926 Member
    charmmeth wrote: »
    Buy a whole bottle of wine and a vacu-vin - simple. Just pump out the air and it keeps fine until you wan to drink the next glass. A lot cheaper than half bottles. :smile:

    I never have an issue with my wine going bad before I want to drink the next glass.
  • Snip8241
    Snip8241 Posts: 767 Member
    Left over wine? What's that?
  • goosebeartalk
    goosebeartalk Posts: 39 Member
    Hahaha I love it. I thought I was the only one who supplemented carbs with wine & beer.
  • earlnabby
    earlnabby Posts: 8,171 Member
    charmmeth wrote: »
    Buy a whole bottle of wine and a vacu-vin - simple. Just pump out the air and it keeps fine until you wan to drink the next glass. A lot cheaper than half bottles. :smile:

    Unless you are like me and really like the sparkling wines. I need to get splits because i can't drink a whole bottle and it does not keep.

  • rainbowbow
    rainbowbow Posts: 7,490 Member
    You dun goofed your math.

    Still better than i could when i'm drunk though.
  • Cookiejo2270
    Cookiejo2270 Posts: 51 Member
    You are totally over thinking it.
  • DaneanP
    DaneanP Posts: 433 Member
    Snip8241 wrote: »
    Left over wine? What's that?

    I was thinking the same thing!

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