The Standard Drink in México

149 T he S tandard D rink in M exico | A nnex TYPES OF DRINKS A wide variety of drinks with alcohol with varying alcoholic content exist; knowledge and use of the Standard Drink can be of great help to people so they use the information written on the containers and know how much alcohol they are consuming, so as to follow health limits. Without the information that we have reviewed throughout the text it might be hard to know how much wine of 13% ABV I should serve to obtain a Standard drink. To obtain it, we can use containers marked or specially designed to obtain standard quantities. In the United Kingdom glasses with precise measures were released to help consumers to obtain standard drinks of several beverages (Unit measure cup 18 ). In Mexico, the Standard Drink has another value, for which the necessary adaptations would have to be carried out. The following is a chart where we show different types of drink, in different presentations (volume), their alcohol content, their equivalences in millilitres and grams of pure alcohol and how many standard drinks they are equal to, according to the standard drink portion that NOM's 142 and 047 specify (13g of EtOH, each). Ethanol density was considered at 0.785g to obtain greater precision in conversions. 18 Ver: https://resources.drinkaware.co.uk/unit-measure-cup, revisado el 20/06/2014