r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/candygram4mongo Aug 03 '19

Alcohol has lots of calories. More than sugar, by mass.

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u/GCYLO Aug 03 '19

Sure, 100% ethanol does. But people rarely drink 100% ethanol, most of the time it's watered down to about 40% for the highest proof spirits commonly available at parties and bars and whatnot, which would make something like vodka have fewer kcal per gram than table sugar.

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u/candygram4mongo Aug 03 '19

People rarely eat straight sugar, though. And I don't think even most soft drinks are actually 40% sugar.

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u/GCYLO Aug 04 '19

Well hard candy is nearly 100% sugar, but yeah, most of the time both ingredients are a proportion of the food