Gin

neil8349
neil8349 Posts: 1 Member
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Gin contains no carbs so why does your app say it’s 1gm per cal ie 52 cals per 25ml = 52 gms of carbs
Can you confirm pls?

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  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 7,338 Member
    MFP's food database is crowdsourced. So I would suggest just looking around for another entry that is correct.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 38,235 Community Helper
    Like lietchi says, the database is crowd-sourced. Something like standard gin is getting its calories from alcohol (at 7 calories per gram of alcohol) . . . almost as if alcohol were its own macronutrient, except of course it's not strictly speaking a nutrient at all. There's no "slot" for alcohol in the MFP database, so for some reason some people add alcohol as if it were carbs (and literally one occasionally sees people here claim alcohol actually is a carb, or is specifically sugar, which of course it isn't 🙄).

    But I'm ranting. It's on us to pick good entries from the database. If there isn't one there, you can create one. For gin, I'd argue that there's one there already. Try this one, if the alcohol level fits: "Alcoholic beverage, distilled, gin 90 proof". Or "Alcoholic Beverage, Distilled, All (Gin, Rum, Vodka, Whiskey) 80 Proof (Alcohol 80 Proof)". Neither of those claims carbs.

    Usually the entries with names that only a bureaucrat could love, like the ones mentioned above, came from the USDA food database at MFP start-up. No guarantees, but they tend to be a little more accurate.

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