Drinking two glasses of wine in a day can exceed your daily sugar limit. Alcohol Health Alliance UK (AHA) recommends adults to consume 30g of sugars per day.
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It concluded that not only was there a wide variation of sugar and calories across different wines but that consumers were "being kept in the dark" about what they were drinking as crucial information was missing from most labels.
Consumer information, it said, was "woefully inadequate," the report said.
Government guidelines recommend adults should consume no more than 30g of so-called free sugars per day. The AHA study showed it was possible to reach almost this entire amount by drinking two medium glasses of wine.
But not only was sugar content high -- the study also showed that just two medium-sized glasses of the most calorific wines analyzed contained more calories than a McDonald's burger.
The AHA analysis suggested many of the most sugar-packed wines were the ones which had the lowest strength of alcohol while wines with high calorie content tended to be higher strength drinks.
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None of the 30 products examined in the study displayed sugar content on their labels -- information which is required for all non-alcoholic drinks.
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