動画レッスン：Sugar in hot drinks

Some Starbucks drinks contain 25 teaspoons of sugar

スタバのコーヒーには砂糖が25杯も入っている

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For many of us, the day doesn’t properly begin until we’ve had our morning fix of coffee. Now analysis has shown that what we’re drinking isn’t just milk and caffeine but worrying levels of sugar.

These are hot drinks and they’re very calorific as a result of the sugar content and will contribute to tooth decay, weight gain. Particularly, when you are not usually associating those products with that much calories and sugar.

As an example, a can of coke has an average of 9 tea spoons of sugar but that’s nothing compared to a Caffe Nero’s caramelatte with 13 teaspoons of sugar. A Costa’s Chai latte has 20 tea spoons of sugar but the worst offender was a Starbucks Hot mulled fruit drink with 25 teaspoons of sugar, which is over 3 times the recommended daily intake.

The drinks with the highest levels of sugar were found to be flavored coffee such as mochas and lattes, with many people not realizing how much hidden sugar they are drinking.

A: I’m diabetic so I can’t have that.

B: There are definitely a lot of sugars, I know, in coffee generally. That’s why I drink black coffee.

C: Well, I had a caramel macchiato, so there was plenty more than that in my drink that I chose for myself but it’s not something that I frequently have, so it was something that was a treat.

D: It’s a burnt caramel latte so it’s probably got even more than that. Love it. Love sugar.

Costa and Starbucks say that they are committed to reducing sugar content. But the advice is to choose hot drinks with less sugar and make it an occasional treat.

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