Thought these drinks were healthy?

Asda’s kids’ tropical juice hasn’t come out too pretty either, it contains a pretty unbelievable 13g of sugar per 100ml. To put that into context for you, 100ml of Coca-Cola contains 10.6g of sugar, half a teaspoon less than Asda’s kids’ juice.

You’d think a drink called ‘Vitamin Water’ would be good for you but the Coca-Cola made beverage actually contains 31g of sugar per bottle – that’s the equivalent to about four or five teaspoons of sugar (a quarter of the recommended daily intake).

Robinsons Fruit Shoot looks like it’s full of healthy juice,
but in actual fact only 10% of the liquid is pure fruit juice. The
kid-size 200ml bottles contain 22g of sugar which is a staggering five and a half
teaspoons. The manufacturers, Brivtic, have created Fruit Shoot H20 – a
low-calorie flavoured water and Fruit Shoot 100% which is pure juice –
both much healthier options than the original.

Robinsons Fruit Shoot looks like it’s full of healthy strawberry juice, but in actual fact only 8% of the liquid is pure fruit juice. The kid-size 200ml bottles contain 23g of sugar which is a staggering five teaspoons. The manufacturers, Brivtic, have created Fruit Shoot H20 – a low-calorie flavoured water and Fruit Shoot 100% which is pure juice – both much healthier options than the original.

Certain flavours of This Water (the flavoured water range of drinks that shares a parent company with smoothie company Innocent) contain 34g of sugar per 420ml bottle – that’s actually more sugar than in the same amount of Coca-Cola.

The traditional children’s fruit juice contains an incredibly high amount of sugar – despite being marketed as containing real fruit juice and being free of artificial colours, flavours and sweeteners, a 250ml carton contains 26g of sugar which is more than 6 teaspooons. Ribena does however, offer healthier versions including Ribena Toothkind which only contains the natural sugars from blackcurrants.

Yakult probiotic drinks contain a whopping 9.2g of sugar in each tiny 65ml pot – not too impressive for a drink which is marketed at being healthy.

Vimto, the mixed fruit juice drink, says it contains ‘real fruit juices’ yet there’s only 2.7% grape juice, 0.2% blackcurrent and 0.1% raspberry. While there’s very little fruit, there’s certainly a lot of sugar amounting to 6 and a half grams, (which is a teaspoon and a half).

A lunchbox favourite, 5 Alive cartons contain up to 8g of sugar per 100ml. Just two small cartons would be more than the daily recommended intake of sugar.

Capri Suns have long been kids’ favourites yet they contain, and while they are 100% pure fruit juice, all those sugars add up. 20g of sugar per carton – nearly half the recommended daily intake of sugar in one small drink.