The study discovered that people taken in about 6.5% less red wine when they consumed from smaller glasses.
A new research study determines a basic trick that might assist individuals drink less.
According to recent research that was recently published in the clinical journal Addiction, households in the United Kingdom consumed wine at a rate of approximately 6.5% less while using smaller sized (290 ml) glasses than when using bigger (350 ml) glasses.
In this randomized regulated experiment, 260 UK households were chosen from the basic population who drank 2 or more 75cl bottles of red wine weekly. In 2 14-day intervention periods, households were asked to buy an established amount of wine to take in at house in either 75cl or 37.5 cl bottles, in random order. Furthermore, they were arbitrarily designated to either smaller (290ml) or larger (350ml) drinking glasses.
After each 14-day intervention duration, the quantity of white wine drunk was tape-recorded by taking photos of the purchased bottles and weighing them on the provided scales. Utilizing smaller sized glasses decreased the amount of white wine consumed by roughly 6.5% (253ml per fortnight), though there is some uncertainty around this result. Consuming from smaller bottles reduced the amount of white wine consumed by 3.6% (146ml per fortnight), nevertheless, there is higher uncertainty around this effect.
White wine is the most typically drunk alcoholic beverage in Europe, and many of it is consumed in homes instead of in restaurants, pubs, or bars. Its already understood that utilizing larger glasses increases the volume of white wine offered in dining establishments and the size of wine glasses, in basic, has increased significantly over the last 3 years. If the results of wine glass size on usage are shown reliable, with impacts sustained in time, decreasing the size of white wine glasses used in houses could contribute to policies for lowering drinking.
These policies might consist of pricing glasses according to capacity to increase the need for smaller glasses, and controling glass sizes in bars, dining establishments, and other certified facilities to help move social norms for what constitutes an acceptable glass size for usage outside as well as within the house.
Referral: “Impact of wine bottle and glass sizes on red wine intake in the house: a within- and between- homes randomized controlled trial” by Eleni Mantzari, Minna Ventsel, Jennifer Ferrar, Mark A. Pilling, Gareth J. Hollands and Theresa M. Marteau, 18 July 2022, Addiction.DOI: 10.1111/ add.16005.
The study was moneyed by the Wellcome Trust..