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Just saw an advertisement for two "lo-carb" wine, labeled "one point six" and "one point nine". The names relate to the amount of "carbs" in a glass (defined on the label as 5 fluid ounces, roughly a fifth of a standard 750ml bottle) of each of the two wines. My problem is that the label uses the term "carb" as if it were a unit of measurement, i.e. "1.6 carbs per glass". I could understand if it were something like "grams of carbohydrate per glass" or "calories derived from carbohydrate per glass". But I am not aware that the term "carb" by itself is a measurement of anything. Have I been living on a different planet?

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I don't think so. That sounds like marketing babble to me, but I suppose it could be short-speak for a legitimate unit of measurement.

AFAIC _they_ are the ones living on another planet, and I'd guess it's Uranus! :^D

Tom S

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Tom S

It's Atkins diet shorthand for (IIRC) grams of useable (metabolizable) carbohydrates. That would take in monosaccharides like glucose (dextrose) and fructose as well as metabolizable complex carbohydrates like starch (a polymer of glucose). Perhaps someone more familiar with the Atkins diet can elaborate further...

Mark Lipton

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You live in California if I remember. Therefore yes...you live on another planet.:-)

That said I saw same wine. I think any dry red and dry white yield the same carbs. Its a rediculous ploy to assume these wines would be lover than say Silver Oak Cab or Montelena Chard.

The abreviation for grams of carbs is simply marketing and in this case absurd.

Cannot really clarify more than this.

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dick

Actually I live in Seattle. Some would contend that it, like California, is on a different planet. But I like it here.

Vino

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Just a thought. Anyone who eats according to rules which use the kind of language indicated above can't really be enjoying food. My sense is that few of the contributors to AFW fall into this category. I certainly don't. Again, it's just a thought.

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