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Many people struggle with understanding the level of sugar in a glass of wine. It is a common assumption that all alcoholic beverages contain a lot of sugar, like a glass of grape juice. This isn’t the case, however. Dry red and white wines actually have very little sugar in them.
Since a bottle of wine doesn’t have to report its sugar content on the label, it makes sense that most consumers don’t know how much they are consuming in a large glass of wine.
If we want to decrease our sugar intake, does it mean we have to give up wine too? Do we really have to buy special wines if we are on the Keto diet like the ads tell us?
Here is the truth about how many grams of sugar are really in a standard wine. It’s less than you think.
Sugar Accumulation in the Grapes
As wine grapes mature through the growing season, their acid levels drop and natural sugars accumulate. At harvest, the majority of the sugars in grapes are made up of fructose molecules and glucose molecules with trace amounts of other naturally occurring sugars.
The sugar content in the grapes at harvest has a direct correlation to the alcohol level of the finished wine since the yeast will turn the sugar into alcohol.
Grapes used to make white wine and sparkling wines are picked at lower sugar levels, therefore they have lower alcohol content. Grapes used to create red
