Low-Carb Alcoholic Drinks

People nowadays are highly conscious about their looks and watching the weight and maintaining health and fitness is extremely important. Understandably enough, people sacrifice some delicious but high carb food recipes, and go for different low-carb diets. As a matter of fact, alcohol drinks are also high in carbs and calories, especially when they are mixed with various other drinks and juices. Now, do we really count and care for the carbs present in alcoholic drinks, since we really can't do without them on several occasions?

There are people who almost religiously follow their assigned low-carb diets and keep on searching for a desperate break from it with...well, a low-carb alcoholic drink! In such cases, there is a need to know what are the low-carb alcoholic drinks. Well, there is no dearth of low calorie alcoholic drinks, which could be as desirable as the regular alcoholic drinks and are low on carbs too.

What is a Low-Carb Alcoholic Drink?

As an astonishing fact, 1 gram alcohol has 7 calories which is quite always overlooked. along with calories, there are plenty of carbs present in the alcoholic beverages. As a result, along with high calorie foods, these drinks and cocktails have equal share to ruin all your weight loss plans. Low-carb alcoholic drinks are not much different than the regular beverages, they are just extra brewed, sugar free, low calorie and low-carb. Always remember that the more the alcohol concentration, the more are the calories. Another fact is that alcohol is not a carbohydrate!

As a thumbnail rule, if you are looking for a low-carb alcoholic drink, always go for dry wines, beers that are labeled as low-carb and all straight drinks like vodka, gin, rum, whiskey, etc. If you wish to try out cocktails, mix them up with fresh lime juice, club soda or diet coke, rather than sweet & sours and non-diet colas. So, with this going, the lowest caloric alcoholic drink would be something amongst vodka or rum and cocktails like bloody mary, mojito or cosmopolitan.

Without making you more confounded with my statements, let's get straight to a list which has no carb as well as low-carb alcoholic drinks, that every diet conscious person would love to imbibe.

• Armagnac - 0g
• Beer (light) - 4.5g
• Bourbon - 0g
• Brandy - 0g
• Cognac - 0g
• Dry Cider - 15g
• Dry Vermouth - 1.4g
• Gin - 0g
• Guinness - 4g
• Red Wine - 2.0g
• Rum - 0g
• Scotch - 0g
• Sherry - 3g
• Sweet Vermouth - 4.5g
• Tequila - 0g
• Vodka - 0g
• Whiskey - 0g
• White Wine - 0.9g

List of Low-Carb Cocktail Liquors

• Amaretto - 17g
• Anisette - 11g
• Baileys - 5.5g
• Carolan's - 6.5g
• Chambord - 11g
• Cointreau - 10g
• Curacao - 9.6g
• Drambuie - 9g
• Frangelico - 11g
• Grand Marnier - 11g
• Kahlua - 17g
• Midori - 11g
• Schnapps - 12g
• Southern Comfort - 3g
• Triple Sec - 12.5g

As a matter of fact, in many diets like Atkins diet and south beach diet, bone dry wines and unsweetened, distilled alcohols are supposed to be really harmless. But, there are only a few people who can stay away from those tempting cocktails and vodka recipes. It is also suggested that when a 'carb-conscious' person decides to indulge into drinks, he must also be accompanied by protein foods. This way, the body will consume alcohol as a form of energy and it won't get saturated into the body. But, if you consume it to extremity, the body will burn only the alcohol and not the fats.

If you MUST drink, mentioned above are the options that come handy with exotic tastes and low-carbs.