How much sugar is in your favourite drinks?

National Smile Month is the UK’s largest and longest-running campaign to promote good oral health.

The key messages National Smile Month are promoting are to:

• Brush your teeth last thing at night and on at least one other occasion with fluoride toothpaste.
• Cut down on how often you have sugary foods and drinks.
• Visit your dentist regularly, as often as they recommend.

The hardest of these 3 has got to be cutting down on sugar. The dangers of too much sugar have increasingly been in the news. The Government have given a strong endorsement of the dangers by introducing a Tax of sugar sweetened drinks, set to start in 2018. 

The World Health Organisation is now recommending no more than 6 teaspoons of sugar a day for women and 9 teaspoons for men. 4g of sugar is 1 teaspoon.

See how much is in your favourite drinks: 

330ml of Capri Sun has 8 teaspoons of sugar

500ml of Lucozade has over 15 teaspoons of sugar

500ml of Redbull has over 14 teaspoons of sugar

288ml of Ribena has over 7 teaspoons of sugar

500ml of Volvic Fruity Water has almost 6 teaspoons of sugar

500ml of Coka-Cola has over 13 teaspoons of sugar

471ml of Fruji Chocolate Milk has 13 teaspoons of sugar

300ml of Tropicana Orange Juice has over 7 teaspoons of naturally occurring sugar

Source:  http://shr.gs/WRjoldU