It doesn’t really matter whether you’re Team Coke or Team Pepsi, because they have similar amounts of sugar: there’s 41g in a can of the latter.
FYI, Sunkist soft drink has a comparable amount of sugar per serve to Fanta.
FYI, Solo has almost a teaspoon more sugar per can than its cousin Lift.
All the drinks in Gatorade’s range have the same amount of sugar per bottle — where the sugar content is approximately 92 percent sucrose and 8 percent glucose. (Sucrose is believed to be a better source of carbohydrates for athletes than glucose.)
According to Powerade’s nutrition information site, sucrose is one of the major ingredients in each bottle of its Ion4 line.
Tricksily, a 600ml carton of Oak chocolate milk technically contains two serves — so if you intend to drink the whole thing yourself in one hit, a quick glance at the nutrition information panel won’t give you the right impression of how much sugar you’re really drinking. FYI, regular full-fat milk has less than half the sugar of its flavoured cousin.
Up&Go has a reduced-sugar line that has about 30 percent less sugar than the regular kind.
Dare’s Double Espresso Iced Coffee has slightly more sugar (45g per serve) than the regular Espresso drink, but much less than the Mocha Iced Coffee (an absurd 51g sugar per serve). Dare’s Raw Iced Coffee boasts 30 percent less sugar than the Espresso variety — but with 30g sugar, it’s still heavy on the sweet stuff.
Don’t be tricked into thinking orange juice (and fruit juice in general) is as good for you as just eating the whole fruit: much of the fibre and other nutrients are strained out, leaving behind a concentrated sugar hit. Other common orange juice brands, such as Daily Juice, Berri and Golden Circle, have a similar (slightly smaller, in fact) profile to Charlie’s.
Aussie Bodies make low-carb options that have significantly less sugar: its Dutch Choc flavour has 9.7g sugar per carton, while its Lo Carb range has approximately 5g sugar.
People often forget that tonic water is essentially sugar water (unlike soda water, which has no sugar) — one reason why all those Saturday-afternoon G&Ts add up.
If you’re after a drink that doesn’t have any sugar (or artificial sweeteners added in its place), just stick to plain old water.