Hot flavoured drinks and sugar

The truth about sugar and coffee shops

We saw previously that a can of Coca-Cola contained 7 sugar cubes, or 9 teaspoons of sugar.

Unfortunately it’s not the only one to blame, and we can find similar examples –even worse- overall among hot flavored drinks served in coffee shop chains. One in five of the population visits a coffee shop daily in the United Kingdom.

With an average of 8 million visits a day, Starbucks is by far the biggest chain crushing its competitors at a global scale.

Some of shocking figures related to this new industry and contents in sugar found into Starbuck’s famous hot beverages:

• The Starbucks Fruit-Grape with Chai, Orange and Cinnamon Venti is the one that contains the highest content in sugar: 25 teaspoons of sugar, it’s more than three times the maximum Adult daily intake of sugars which has been recommended by World Health Organization (7teaspoons a day)
• 98% of the 131 hot flavoured drinks analyzed by ActionOnSugar.org would receive a red high label for excessive content in sugar.
• Hot drinks that are said to be “healthy” which are sold in these coffee shops still contain a lot more than the daily intake of sugar recommended by WHO: for example, a Starbuck’s Chai Tea Latte Ventin (size extra-large) contains 13 teaspoons of sugar.

*4 grams of sugar is equal to 1teaspoon of sugar

This information is taken from www.actiononsugar.org.

To read the full article and have access to the data of the survey, follow this link:

http://www.actiononsugar.org/News%20Centre/Surveys%20/2016/170865.html#_edn3

Ecomil and Sugar-free 

Consuming too much sugar favours the augmentation of blood glucose and often causes teeth decays.

But we do care about you! The Ecomil sugar-free almond milk range is still available and we will keep on updating you about this major issue …