53 Grams of Sugar in a Bottle

I usually get a bottle of Lipton’s Iced Green Tea with Citrus whenever I have to buy lunch on a day that I intern. However, while I was halfway through the bottle the other day at my internship, my eye fell upon the nutritional information on the back of the bottle and I almost choked on my tea.

These are the nutritional facts that Lipton outlines for the Iced Green Tea with Citrus on their website:

Serving Size: 8 fl oz
Servings per 20 fl oz container: 2.5

Amount Per Serving
Calories 80
Total Fat 0g
Sodium 70mg
Total Carbohydrate 21g
Sugars 21g
Protein 0g

If there are 21g of sugar in one serving size of 8 fl oz and one bottle is 2.5 serving sizes… that means for every bottle of Iced Green Tea with Citrus I drink, I am drinking about 53g of sugar! My God, no wonder I have been noticing a slight weight gain recently¹.

I am most definitely bringing a water bottle to work now. I can always treat myself to bottled sugary drinks in the future, but I am not going to drink them regularly anymore. So long, Lipton Iced Green Tea with Citrus!

1. Of course, I’m not saying that any possible weight gain is directly caused by Lipton iced tea. But hey, it could be a factor. [↩]

Cross-posted from breakthesky.net. Please leave any comments there.