eli5 if something has 7% of alcohol and you drink 2 bottles of it,you don’t consume 14% of alcohol. but if a cookie has 100 calories and you eat two,you consume 200 calories. why?

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eli5 if something has 7% of alcohol and you drink 2 bottles of it,you don’t consume 14% of alcohol. but if a cookie has 100 calories and you eat two,you consume 200 calories. why?

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Because you are comparing different things. Calories are the amount of “energy” in a food. Alcohol percentage is a measure of how “strong” the drink is.

Alcohol has 7 cal per gram (“energy”) plus all the other sugar, juice and other calories in the drink (more calories in mixed drinks/beers). If you look at the calories of a serving of beer, you could be consuming 150 calories per drink.