The World's Most Unhealthy Beverages

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We often talk about what we eat and how it contributes to an unhealthy lifestyle or weight gain, but the hidden calories (and pounds) are actually in the drinks. Here are some of the highest caloric drinks and healthy swaps. 

1. Worst Coffees:

  • Starbucks Whole Milk White Chocolate Mocha: 620 calories and 75 grams of sugar, that's the equivalent of eating 8 pastries before 9am. 
  • Krispy Kreme Lotta Latte Chiller: 670 calories and 60 grams of sugar just in a small 12 oz.
  • Dunkin' Donuts Frozen Caramel Coffee Coolatta: Over 990 calories and with 130 grams of sugar, this is by far the worst choice ever. 

2. Worst Cocktails

  • Long Island Iced Teas: This popular college cocktail has almost every liquor known to human beings in it topped off with lots of mixers full of sugar. 243 calories and 16 grams of sugar. 
  • Strawberry Daiquiri: Most drinks are not made with fresh strawberries. Instead, they use a mixer that is 1% actual berries, 99% high fructose corn syrup. 279 calories, 47 grams of sugar.
  • Frozen Margarita: Over 400 calories and 82 grams of sugar, this is not the best choice for a cocktail. This is mostly because it's made with a high sugar neon mix. Choose a mojito instead. 

3. Worst Smoothies

  • Bolthouse Farms Amazing Mango Fruit Smoothie: With over 200 calories and 66.5 grams of sugar and to make matters worse, one bottle equals two servings. 
  • Odwalla Strawberry C Monster Smoothie: 300 calories, 54 grams of sugar - two words, not good. This will not quench your thirst or satisfy your hunger. 
  • Naked Protein Juice Banana Chocolate Smoothie: The 480 calories and 65 grams of sugar don't justify the 30 grams of protein. While packing a protein is almost always a good thing, in this case when it's filled with sugar, we'll pass.

4. Worst Flavored Waters

  • SoBe LifeWater Pomegranate Cherry: If the water you're drinking has more 20 grams of sugar, you need to cut it out of your diet completely. With that much sugar, we can safely say it's not water anymore. 100 calories | 25 grams of sugar
  • Crystal Light Liquid: Even though the package says zero calories and sugar, that doesn't eliminate the 12 artificial ingredients including Sucralose which is a thickening agent also found in printing inks.
  • Glacéau Vitamin Water Focus Kiwi-Strawberry: 125 calories and 32.5 grams of sugar.