When summer’s in full swing, nothing quenches quite like an ice-cold tea.
Many ready-to-drink iced teas pack more than a full day’s added sugar in just one serving.
Eating too much sugar too frequently can contribute to obesity, bang out 2 diabetes, and heart disease.
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Below, we ranked the most popular ready-to-drink iced teas in grocery store fridges according to their sugar content.
See below, and then check out the25 Unhealthiest Drinks on the PlanetRanked by Sugar.
Tejava Lemon Black Tea
Tejavais straight-up tea, with nothing else.
Tejava
That means no calories, sugar, artificial sweeteners, sodium, or preservatives.
Gold Peak Slightly Sweet Tea
Gold Peak’sSlightly Sweet Teahas about half the sugar as its original version.
If you ask us, this bottled bev is a little too sweet.
Bai
A 16-ounce bottle has 23 grams of added sugars coming from agave syrup.
The second ingredient inthis classic iced teais high-fructose corn syrup, while black tea is the seventh ingredient.
Still, the sugar count is high, providing 6 teaspoons' worth.
Coca-Cola
Apparently, his beverage has been a hit ever since.
You’re better off withSnapple’s Zero Sugar version, sweetened with aspartame.
Moonshine Original Sweet Tea
Moonshinestarted brewing tea in 1946 in the small town of Mason, Texas.
Brisk
The brand prides itself on using black tea leaves, filtered water, and 100% pure cane sugar.
But where Moonshine lacks additives, it makes up for it in sugar.
A 16-ounce bottle has more sugar than afull-size bar of milk chocolate.
Brisk
To put things into perspective, 30 grams is more than 7 teaspoons of the sweet stuff.
Still, the brand was pretty heavy-handed with the second ingredient on the list (sugar).
A serving of this Southern-style tea has just 7 fewer grams of sugar than a can of Coke.
Arizona
Arizona Green Tea
Many of us remember these classic green, cherry blossom-decorated bottles from childhood.
One 18.5-ounce bottle packs 34 grams of sugar, which is 8.5 teaspoons worth of the sweet stuff.
The first two ingredients after water are high-fructose corn syrup and sugar.
Just Ice Tea
One serving contains a staggering 37 grams of sugar and none of the fiber in real raspberries.
Turkey Hill
Lipton
Red Diamond
Pure Leaf
Milo’s
Subtle Tea
Snapple
Snapple
Moonshine Sweet Tea
Turkey Hill
Walmart
Coca-Cola
Arizona
Reily Products
Turkey Hill
Arizona
Turkey Hill
Milo’s
