“Rethink Your Drink”
Last Updated December 9, 2016 · First Published April 8, 2010
A 20 ounce Coca-Cola has 240 calories, provided entirely by the 65 grams of sugar in the bottle (in the form of High Fructose Corn Syrup, for most of us in the USA). ย Check the label — it’s got 2.5 “servings” even though you’re going to drink the whole thing.ย With 4 grams of sugar in a teaspoon, that’s over 16 teaspoons of sugar. That’s a third of a cup of refined sugar. Just sayin’.
I’ll go into more detail about why you should rethink your drink* in future posts, but in the meantime, Spring has Sprung, so why not have a nice glass of unsweetened, sun-brewed iced tea?
* “Rethink your drink” shamelessly stolen from my nutrition teacher, Suzanne Bogert.