Overview

Sugary drinks are beverages that contain added sugars or sweeteners. Sugary drinks include soda, sports drinks, energy drinks, fruit-flavored or powdered drinks, vitamin-enhanced water drinks, toddler milks with added sweeteners, and sweetened tea and coffee drinks. Chocolate milk and some milk alternatives also contain added sugar. The additional sugar in these drinks adds calories, but little or no nutrients.

Click on the tabs below to see how much sugar (and calories from added sugar) are in each kind of drink. Calculations are based on calories and teaspoons of sugar per container.

Amounts of sugar in sugary drinks

20 oz Soda

16 teaspoons of sugar

256 calories from added sugar

20 oz Fruit-Flavored Drink

16 teaspoons of sugar

256 calories from added sugar

20 oz Sports Drink

9 teaspoons of sugar

144 calories from added sugar

16 oz Energy Drink

16 teaspoons of sugar

256 calories from added sugar

20 oz Vitamin-Enhanced Water Beverage

8 teaspoons of sugar

128 calories from added sugar

16 oz Powdered Drink

11 teaspoons of sugar

176 calories from added sugar

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