Why does beer have so many calories.?!
Why does beer have so many calories.?
1 can of budweiser has 145 calories, why? it is simply malt , barley and water. or is it all in the yeast? i've had 10 already, so i guess i'm not allowed to eat today! (being semi-serious)
Answers:
You acctually partially answered the question for your self. The fact that malt comes from barley is part of the answer, being that cereals are high in carbohydrates. Unfermented sugars also account for a percentage of the calories. If you are quite diet concious there are low carbohydrate beers available. These are usually quite dry beers and nearly all taste better than bud...lol. They are beers which are brewed to strict guidelines to produce a beer that is designed to be safely drunk by people suffering from diabetes and are often called "diet" or "diabetic" beers. Personally I brew my own beer at around 70 litres (about 20 us gallons) per week at around 9% alcohol, God knows how many calories are in it and probably he is the only one who cares, it is that nice I wouldnt "buy" beer from anywhere, let alone care about the calories.
Source(s):
understanding beer making by Grant Sampson
Home Brewing by Michael Rodgers - Wilson
It is in the sugar required to make alcohol. You add sugar to the wort to make beer. Yeast just starts the fermentation process to make alcohol.
so much sugar.
Because it's food.
cause its good.
Beer has so many calories due to unfermentable fiber. In laymens terms starch is just very long chains and branches of sugar. During the beer making process enzymes are released that can break down these long chains of starches into fermentable sugars. The yeast then uses these sugars to make alcohol. However when ever these long chains of starches connect to one another the enzymes are unable to break them apart. This gives you soluble fiber. Your body has the proper enzymes in your digestive track to break down these chains of sugars even more. This is one reason as to why beer has so many calories.
Another reason is due to the alcohol content of the beer its self. Not too many people are aware of this but alcohol does have a caloric content. Its right there in between plain sugar and fats.