Think Before You Drink

Rex Sorgatz, Staff Writer

We spend so much time focusing on what we eat, sometimes we overlook what we drink.

Alcoholic drinks

Fruit Drinks

Drinks Less Than 100 calories per bottle

For sake of comparison:

a 2 oz. Snickers bar has 280 calories
a 2 oz. Mily Way bar has 270 calories
6 Oreo cookies total 320 calories

Alcoholic Drinks

Adding a mixer adds more calories to the totals below:

Drink	Calories
Beer, 12 ounces	150
Light Beer, 12 ounces	100
Wine, 5 ounces	100
Wine cooler,12 ounces	180
Liquor, 1 ? ounces	95-110
Cordial, liqueur, 1 ? ounces	160

Non-Alcoholic Drinks

Check the serving size! The single bottles (16 to 24 oz.) are very popular now - especially in pop machines, cafeterias, and convenience stores. Be aware that each bottle includes at least two servings. Numbers below are listed per container since most people drink the entire bottle.

Fruit drinks

V8 Splash Tropical Blend
16 oz. bottle = 220 calories & 0g fat

Fruitopia Strawberry Passion Awareness
20 oz. bottle = 247 calories & 0g fat

Odwalla Orange Pina Smoothie
16 oz. bottle = 280 calories & 0g fat

Sunny Delight
20 oz. bottle = 292 calories & 0g fat

Minute Maid Orange Juice
16 oz. bottle = 220 calories & 0g fat

Ocean Spray Apple Juice
16 oz. bottle = 220 calories & 0g fat

Sports drinks

Powerade
20 oz. bottle = 157 & 0g fat

Gatorade
20 oz. bottle = 112 calories & 0g fat

Iced tea/coffee

Snapple (Kris's Mix-Up Lemonade Iced Tea)
16 oz bottle = 220 calories & 0g fat Arizona Iced Tea
20 oz. bottle = 135 calories & og fat

Nantucket Super Nectars - Strawberry Smoothie
16 oz. bottle = 240 calories & 0g fat

Coffee House Iced Coffee - German Chocolate
9.5 oz. bottle = 180 calories & 4g fat

Sodas

Pepsi
24 oz bottle = 300 calories & 0g fat

Coke
16.5 oz. bottle = 200 calories & 0g fat

Surge
20 oz. can = 275 calories & 0g fat

Mountain Dew
20 oz. can = 275 calories & 0g fat

Milk-related drinks

NesQuik Chocolate Milk
16 oz. carton = 460 calories & 16g fat

Starbucks Frappuccino (Coffee, Vanilla, or Mocha Flavor)
9.5 oz. bottle = 190 calories & 3g fat

Less than 100 calories per bottle

Veryfine Fruit20
(Natural Strawberry, Raspberry, Orange, Lemon, Lime, Cherry)
16 oz. bottle = 0 calories & 0g fat

Aqua Splash
(Kiwi Strawberry, Cherry Breeze, Icy White, Raspberry Rain)
20 oz bottle = 5.5 calories & 0g fat

Aloe Splash
(Mountain Berry, Kiwi Lemon Lime, Kiwi Strawberry, Orange Mango)
20 oz. bottle = 45 calories & 0g fat

Clearly Canadian
(Strawberry Melon, Grape, Blackberry, Cherry, Raspberry Cream)
14 oz. bottle = 91 calories & 0g fat

All totals based on calories and fat per serving. Beverages were chosen in a random sampling.

Sources:

Alcoholic beverages: American Dietetic Association, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Non-alcoholic beverages: Information not collected in primary research was provided by Bevnet. Bevnet is an independent consumer advocacy web site focused on the non-alcoholic beverage industry. Information from Bevnet is used with permission.