Nutrition Facts: Calories in Cocktails
Posted on | December 1, 2009 | 5 Comments
Let’s face it. Cocktails taste delicious.
Singapore Slings from the legendary Raffles Hotel
They look good, taste delicious and really get the party started. But what alot of people don’t consider is how many unnecessary calories & sugar they are happily drinking.
The average cocktail contains 2 x 30ml pours of liquor (average about 90 calories / 30ml). They are then mixed with either fruit juice, sugary soda and more often than not – contain cream of some sort. You do the math: 180 calories of alcohol + 1/2 cup juice containing 80 calories + cream 100 calories…….. yup………. the answer is massive.
I’ve decided to pick on Singapore Slings!! (Only due to having recently entertained friends at Raffles hotel & having some incriminating photos for evidence)
Singapore Sling Ingredients:
- 30 ml Gin (73 Calories)
- 15 ml Cherry brandy (77 Calories)
- 120 ml pineapple juice (73 Calories)
- 15 ml lime juice (10 Calories)
- 7.5 ml Cointreau (25 Calories)
- 7.5 ml Dom Benedictine (27 Calories)
- 10 ml Grenadine (23 Calories)
- Dash of Angostura Bitters (3 calories)
- Garnish with a slice of pineapple and cherry (5 calories & 29 calories)
So…. in total (including eating the garnish) there is total of:
345 Calories per Singapore Sling.
Peanuts at Raffles Hotel
Now…… if like every other person at Raffles that happily munch on the peanuts & throw the shells on the ground… for every small handful eaten that’s another 160 Calories.
So…… lets just call it a neat 500 Calories in 1 cocktail + some peanuts.
That’s considered the average calorie requirement in 1 meal for a male or an active female. And approximately 1/3 of the average persons daily requirement of energy – not even factoring in the amount of sugar and fat also consumed.
That would take a person about 1 hour of running or 80 minutes of brisk walking to burn off.
Scary isn’t it.
So next time – consider what you’re drinking. Ask yourself if you really need that Cocktail (1 glass of wine is much less damaging) or it’s even better if you can completely avoid alcohol all together.
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22 hours, 25 minutesago- Guest_4991 : Hi,wrt the tang yuan shouldn't it have at least the same amount of protein as the plain bean curd? Does the added fat come from the filling in the rice balls?
- Guest_4008 : Also, weight gain is proven to be caused by insulin spikes and unbalanced hormones. You can eat a measly 500calories a day and still gain weight if your hormones are imbalance. That's science for you.
- Guest_4008 : Weight management is science? Science couldn't even explain where we came from. Moreover what makes humans gain weight. Call yourself a health guru? You should not be so narrow minded and accept new information each day. There's still so much knowledge that humans do not know.
- Guest_4008 : The thermodynamic is only accurate on machines. We are not calorimeters. We are living organisms that have complex digestive systems. Different food metabolizes differently in our systems so stop emphasizing on calories as it's proven time and time again to be flawed.
- Guest_4008 : If my energy influx exceeds my outflux? Lol come'on try chugging down 1litre of olive oil and see if you gain that much of weight. You crap right out. So are you still telling me eating a surplus of calories make you gain weight??
- Guest_1584 : 1200 calories for women?!?! That's like my breakfast + lunch and I'm 45kg...will probably lose ALOT of weight if I follow that guideline :S
- Health Guru : ... with lower fats is best. Please note: Your BMI calculation actually also puts you in the underweight category....
- Health Guru : Dear Guest 4008: Your comments show that you haven't been reading my blog for very long! I believe in a Protein dominant diet, 30-40% carbs, less than 10% fat in every meal. I also believe weight management is science. You can't deny it - there is energy influx and energy outflux. If your influx exceeds your outflux then you will store the additional energy in your fat reserves. The most important consideration is what your influx (diet) contains.... A diet higher in lean protein & vegetables wi
- Guest_4008 : Btw don't question my ability in counting food calories. I keep food diaries for a year now. I know very well the calories contained in every morsel I ate. We are not meant to eat little. We were meant to eat natural food. It's the only thing that our body recognizes and utilizes well. Don't believe? Try googling calories in vs calories out debunked.
- Guest_4008 : I feel your idea of nutrition just revolves around calories and fat content which is in my opinion very superficial. First off I would like to say. Calories in vs calories out theory is flawed. We are not machines. In fact I ate up to 3000calories daily of whole food and still am 48kg to date. I'm 167cm female non-active female. All I'm saying is stop advocating about cutting calories and portion but promote healthy whole food eating.
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December 1st, 2009 @ 10:43 am
OMG!!! I LOVE cocktails! Especially pina coladas and I bet they are twice as bad as Singapore Slings, with all that cream in them! No more of them for me!!!!
February 19th, 2012 @ 6:54 pm
500 calories is “more than half” a person’s daily caloric requirements? Isn’t the minimum supposed to be 1200? Below that is considered unhealthy, isn’t it?
February 19th, 2012 @ 7:14 pm
Hi… thanks for your comment. I did just go back and re-read that post – and it’s a mistake I’ve made. I’ll go back in and edit it – thanks for that.
Regarding calorie requirements per day, it’s recommended that for general adults that it’s kept to a minimum of 1200 calories. In my experience from working in Asia now for a while, I have found that it does tend to be much lower for the Asian population when using a predictive equation using age, height and weight. Therefore, each case is individual – and I should make a special mention of that fact at the end of each of my posts about calories to make it clear from what is recommended and what i’ve found treating clients.
Thanks!
May 8th, 2012 @ 12:55 am
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May 8th, 2012 @ 7:45 am
Thanks! Appreciate the comment.