Nutritional Labeling on Wine Bottles?
New discoveries are made every day, but who would have thought that wine, the supposed "good for your heart" drink, could be a potential health detriment?
How could seeing a nutritional label of a wine bottle help you determine the amount the bottle is worth? Depending on the aging process of a glass of wine, the components that factor into making the specific wine, and even what the wine is best paired with, all play a role in how much weight gain is estimated for the consumer deciding on such a type.
Recently, noticeable fluctuations from one kind of wine to another, have prompted the Government to mandate alcohol manufacturers to create labels with standard drink measurements more commonly than they already do.
But, to really get the point across of how good, or how bad—calorically, or for other health reasons, the Government has proposed a new requirement: marking the amount of kilojoules each drink contains.
Auckland University of Technology nutrition professor, Elaine Rush, has studied the new issue and has finalized her beliefs on the importance of informing consumers of what they are truly entering into their bodies.
“They [alcoholic drinks] contribute quite a large proportion of our energy, around about 5 per cent, which is around the same as sugar,” she said.
No one really thinks about the components of wine—it is normally thought of as a blend of fermented grapes and some minerals that are minimally known of by the norm.
But, what is put into the human body should be understood entirely. This new order from the Government will not only interest people, but it will also educate them on what needs to be tended to for maintaining above average health.