If you are just tuning in and want the background on today’s post, please see Calorie Count Part 1 and Calorie Count Part 2.
To finish out our “calories in alcohol” theme, I have compiled this chart estimating calorie counts for wines, popular cocktails, and other non alcoholic beverages.
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Beverage
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Calorie Count
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Dry white or red wines 5 oz.
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99-138
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Dry sparkling wine 5 oz.
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123
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Dry distilled spirits 80 proof vodka, gin, rum
tequila, whisky, brandy 1.5 oz.
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97
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Margarita (tequila, Cointreau®, lime) 2.5 oz
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155
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Margarita (tequila, Jose Cuervo®,
margarita mix) 4 oz
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240
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Margarita at a restaurant
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300 for 16 oz. (they are huge!)
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Vodka martini dry
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127
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Vodka tonic 1:1 ratio
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112
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Screwdriver 1.5 oz. Vodka, 6 oz. oj
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180
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Pina Colada restaurant
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400-700 depending on size and coconut cream
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Pina Colada 4.5 oz.
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245
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Canned Pina Colada 6.8 oz.
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526
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Daiquiri canned 6.8 oz.
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249
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Strawberry Daiquiri
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135
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Old Fashioned – no fruit (with Bourbon, Whiskey, Scotch, Rye, Canadian, etc)
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125
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Dry Manhattan
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131
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Budweiser beer (12 oz.)
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146
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McDonald’s® medium iced tea
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140
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Starbucks® grande caffe mocha with whip
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330
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Sonic® medium strawberry limeade
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200
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Coca Cola® 20 oz bottle
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240
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I am not your doctor, nutritionist, and I am certainly not your mother. I am your blogger and wine friend and I say drink what you want. If you want some rules of thumb . . .
- Orange, fluorescent slushy-like drinks have more calories than something simpler.
- Fewer add-ins = fewer calories.
- Lower alcohol = lower calories.
- Wine is better than Coke.- just saying.
Just for fun, here are some drink friendly activities that burn 100 calories for the average female:
- Throw darts for 38 minutes
- Dance for 20 minutes
- Play 13 hands of poker
- Laugh for 25 minutes
- Drink too much? – walk home – 15 minutes
- Bike home – 10 minutes
- Play guitar 31 minutes (and you don’t even have to be good)
- Give a massage – 24 minutes
- One hour of amorous activity
- Nap for 94 minutes
Resources:
Brand name/restaurant chain websites.
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