RANKED: The Best and Worst cocktails for sugar and calories
As thousands of brits get ready for this bank holiday weekend, we can expect to see some very boozy evenings on the 23-25th of August with bars and pubs filling up serve the endless amount of beer, wine, and cocktails.
Experts at The Hospital Group are advising people to be cautious of falling into the trap of unknowingly ‘drinking our calories’ and consuming excessive amounts of sugar in the form of alcoholic beverages.
The new study from The Hospital Group, which looks at the calorie contents of cocktails people regularly drink, found that people ages 25-34 in the UK typically consume and extra 18 units of alcohol over the bank holiday weekend. With the recommended daily units between 2-4 units for both sexes, this is almost 5 times more than the recommended levels*.
With people expected to have around an extra 18 units of alcohol this bank holiday, you could be sipping away more than 1,792 calories on average in cocktails. A pornstar martini has around 2.3 units of alcohol with 223 calories and it would, therefore, take only 8 of these drinks throughout the day to have consumed 18 units.
The study also showed that the calories and sugar content in a variety of popular cocktails; revealed some contain more calories than a chocolate bar (171cals*)….and more sugar than a Krispy Kreme doughnut (12.6g**)!
Worst cocktails – based on SUGAR content
- Pimms – 25.3g
- Long Island Iced Tea – 21g
- Aperol Spritz – 19g
- Strawberry Daiquiri – 17g
- Sex On The Beach – 17g
- Pornstar martini – 16g
- Pina Colada – 13.6g
- Cuba Libre – 10g
- Cosmopolitan – 8g
- Gin Fizz – 5g
- Mojito – 4.3g
- Blue Lagoon – 3g
- Margarita – 0.3g
Worst cocktails – based on most calorific (cal)
- Pina Colada – 314
- Long Island Iced Tea – 262
- Pornstar martini – 224
- Strawberry Daiquiri – 219
- Sex On The Beach – 202
- Aperol Spritz – 195
- Pimms – 175
- Cosmopolitan – 161
- Cuba Libre – 159
- Mojito – 158
- Gin Fizz – 155
- Margarita – 144
- Blue Lagoon – 130
