![]() ![]() ![]() Some sources call it a macronutrient, but it's hard for me to think of it as "a nutrient" because it's not nutritious. ![]() It's it's own category, and calories are about 7 per gram of alcohol. That's the "different but close enough" part.įinally, though the day you show doesn't have any obvious sources, I'll mention this for completeness: Alcohol is not a carb, protein, or fat. "Proteins" are really a combination of a bunch of different amino acids, for example. That's the idea behind the rounding part.Īlso, macronutrients, in one sense, are not a well-defined thing, but rather big groups of things with a similar metabolic role and similar calories per gram. If one food has 3.1g protein, and another has 3.3g protein, for example, that's 6.4g, and it will show up in whole numbers are 6g. Recognize that rounding error still happens and that the "calories per gram of X macro" are not necessarily exactly the same across different variants of the same macro, just close enough and that some imprecision is legally allowed in food labels (in the US, some values may be off by 20%). If precision matters to you, vet your choices from the database against an authoritative source, like the USDA food database, and/or the product label in your hand. ![]()
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