What Is the Nutritional Value of Crown Royal Whiskey?

Do you enjoy a drink of Crown Royal from time to time? Interested in learning more about how its nutrition may affect your weight loss efforts? As one of the first spirits to provide nutrition information right on the bottle, you'll be better equipped to make healthy choices about consumption.

Crown Royal is a Canadian whiskey owned by Diageo. It comes in a variety of options and flavors. The official website lists the following products:

• Signature Series Blender's Mash
• Signature Series Deluxe
• Signature Series Rye
• Signature Series Black
• Master Series Wine Barrel Finished
• Master Series Reserve
• Master Series XO
• Master Series XR
• Flavor Series Peach
• Flavor Series Texas Mesquite
• Flavor Series Salted Caramel
• Flavor Series Vanilla
• Flavor Series Apple

Most of the Crown Royal products contain 40 percent alcohol. Certain flavors, such as Black, contain 45 percent alcohol. Flavors such as Crown Royal Apple contain less alcohol at 35 percent.

The official Crown Royal website provides a variety of mixed drink recipes to cater to their audience. These include: Whiskey and Cola, Whiskey and Ginger Ale, Apple Pie a la Mode and many others to choose from based on the variety of liquor and the occasion.

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Crown Royal Apple, also known as Crown Royal Regal Apple, is a 35 percent alcohol, or 70 proof product. Crown Apple nutrition facts indicate a 35-milliliter serving contains 82 Crown Apple calories and 10 grams of alcohol. There are 3 grams of carbs in Crown Apple, of which 2.8 grams is sugar. There are more Crown Apple calories than in the regular whiskey even though there is less alcohol because of the sugar.

According to the Department of Health and Human Services, 1 gram of alcohol contains 7 calories. This means 70 calories, or the majority of the calories in each serving, come from the alcohol itself.

Once you add mixers such as cola, grenadine, lemon juice or cranberry juice as called for by many of the recipes on the website, you're adding more calories, carbs and sugar to your drinks.

When you consider the standard drink is 1.5 fluid ounces of liquor, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, you're consuming more calories than the serving size indicates. Around 1.5 fluid ounces translates to approximately 40 milliliters and contains 14 grams of alcohol.

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In terms of nutrition, the USDA indicates that all 80 proof liquor, whether it be whiskey, gin, vodka or rum, has 97 calories per 1.5 fluid ounce serving.

When you compare Crown Apple nutrition facts to that of other whiskeys, you may find additional calories because of sugar and other ingredients added to make a liqueur. Baileys Irish Cream, for instance, contains Irish whiskey with a blend of cream and chocolate. It contains less alcohol by volume, but many more calories because of the cream.

At the most basic level, according to Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute, the difference in flavor and nutrition from one whiskey to the next has to do with what the liquor is originally distilled from and where it is made. "Whisky" refers to any whiskey liquor produced in the United States, whereas "whiskey" is produced elsewhere in the country.