Why do liquors that are made from carb-heavy foods like potatoes (vodka) and sugar cane (rum) have no digestible carbs in them?

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Why do liquors that are made from carb-heavy foods like potatoes (vodka) and sugar cane (rum) have no digestible carbs in them?

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They have. Ethanol, drinking alcohol, gets metabolized to acetate, which is basically vinegar.

Alcohol is actually quite rich in calories.
Calorie content of pure alcohol is in between sugars (more) and fat (less).

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