A standard 175ml glass of wine contains between 126 and 160 calories.

That cheeky after-work pint or the bottle of wine you share with your partner over dinner could be adding inches to your waistline as well as some foods, figures show.

A standard 175ml glass of wine contains between 126 and 160 calories depending on its strength. The lower figure is the same as a Cadbury’s Hero miniature, the latter a slice of rich Madeira cake. It would take more than 15 minutes of jogging to burn it off.

Go large on the Chablis with a 250ml glass and you could be glugging down 228 calories, the same as a Cornetto ice cream or two fishfingers. It would take almost half an hour of cycling to burn it off.

If you share a bottle of 13 per cent alcohol wine with someone over dinner, you could be packing in 340 calories each, which would take 30 minutes of hard swimming to shift.

Luckily for those with a taste for the finer things in life, a flute of champagne is just 89 calories, and you could burn it off with a nine-minute run. Wine not your thing? Well beer can be better, depending on how many and what type you neck while the football is on. Lower alcohol and smaller bottle servings contain less calories than pints.

Luckily for those with a taste for the finer things in life, a flute of champagne is just 89 calories

A pint of premium strength 5 per cent beer contained 170 calories, the same as the packet of ready salted crisps you may be having with it. You’d have to put in a full-on 17 minutes on a rowing machine to get rid of it.

A pint of strong cider can contain 216 calories, like chomping almost three quarters of the way through a burger. You’d need to spend almost half an hour have a kick-about in the park to shift just one. The figures are similar for a pint of Guinness (210 calories).

And those with a sweet tooth who turn to alcopops are packing in 237 calories in every 330ml bottle of five per cent fizzy drink, the same as three chocolate teacakes. You’d need to spend almost 90 minutes contorting yourself in your favourite yoga poses to stop the calories wreaking havoc with your chakras.

The good news is that spirits have less calories, with on average a 40 per cent 25ml measure having 61 calories − with no mixer. You could burn that off with a moderate walk of 12 minutes.