It’s summer. It’s hot. You’re thirsty. You want some shade and something cool – or maybe ice cold – to drink.
Check Out The Calories
A lot of those cool, refreshing drinks come with a hefty dose of calories. You might be surprised at the number of calories in a drink you’ve been having for years.
Do a little research, figure out your best choice, and then make that your drink of choice. Can you be satisfied with a bottle of beer that has around 100 calories rather than another brand that has around 300 – or water with a hint of flavor instead of a sports drink?
Water and Sports Drinks
- Gatorade: 12 oz, 80 calories
- SoBe Lifewater: 20 oz, 90 calories
- Glaceau Smart Water: 33.8 oz, 0 calories
- Vitamin Water: 20 oz, 125 calories
- Vitamin Water 10: 20 oz, 25 calories
- Perrier Citron Lemon Lime (22 oz bottle): 0 calories
- Vitamin Water Focus Kiwi-Strawberry (20 oz bottle): 125 calories, 32.5g sugars
- Hint Blackberry (16 oz bottle): 0 calories
- Gatorade G Orange (12 oz bottle): 80 calories, 21g sugars
- Water (as much as you want): 0 calories
Iced Coffee and Tea Drinks
- Dunkin’ Donuts Vanilla Bean Coolatta: 16 oz, 430 calories
- Dunkin’ Donuts Sweet Tea: 16 oz, 120 calories
- Starbuck’s Coffee Frappuccino: 16 0z (grande), 240 calories
- Starbuck’s Coffee Frappuccino, light: 16 oz grande), 110 calories
- Tazo Unsweetened Shaken Iced Passion Tea: 0 calories
- Iced Brewed Coffee with classic syrup: 12 oz (tall), 60 calories
Soda and Non-Carbonated Drinks
- Mountain Dew: one 20 oz bottle, 290 calories
- Coke Classic: one 20 oz bottle, 233 calories
- Diet coke: one 20 oz bottle, 0 calories
- Snapple Orangeade (16 oz): 200 calories, 52g sugar
- San Pelligrino Limonata (11.15 fl oz can): 141 calories, 32g sugars
- Can of Coke (12 oz): 140 calories, 39g sugars
- Bottle of 7Up (12 oz): 150 calories, 38g sugars
- Root beer float (large, 32 oz): 640 calories, 10g fat
Beer (12 oz bottle)
- Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Ale: 330 calories
- Samuel Adams Boston Lager: 180 calories
- Guinness Extra Stout: 176 calories
- Pete’s Wicked Ale: 174 calories
- Harpoon IPA: 170 calories
- Heineken: 166 calories
- Killian’s Irish Red: 163 calories
- Long Trail: 163 calories
- Molson Ice: 160 calories
- Samuel Adams Brown Ale: 160 calories
- Budweiser: 144 calories
- Corona Light: 105 calories
- Coors Light: 102 calories
- Heineken Light: 99 calories
- Budweiser Select: 99 calories
- Miller Light: 96 calories
- Amstel Light: 95 calories
- Anheuser Busch Natural Light: 95 calories
- Michelob Ultra: 95 calories
- Miller MGD 64: 64 calories
- Beck’s Premier Light: 64 calories
Wine
- Red Wine: 5 oz, 129 calories
- White Wine: 5 oz, 120 calories
- Sangria: 8 oz, 176 calories
Alcoholic Drinks
- Mojito: 7 oz, 172 calories
- Frozen Magarita: 4 oz, 180 calories (the average margarita glass holds 12 oz, 540 calories)
- Mimosa: 137 calories
- Gin and Tonic: 175 calories