How many calories in a can of cola
A 330 ml can of Coke has 139 kcal, all of it from 35 g of sugar, and a 500 ml bottle has 210.
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To burn it off
Cola is fizzy water, flavouring and sugar. There's no protein and no fat, so all 139 kcal in a can are the 35 g of sugar, almost 9 teaspoons.
That's the 330 ml can sold in the UK and Europe, about 42 kcal in every 100 ml. The 500 ml bottle from the meal deal fridge is 210, and one a day at work is 1,050 over a five day week, which is a whole pizza you never sat down to eat.
Coke Zero and Diet Coke are 1 kcal a can. Whatever you think of sweeteners, the number really is that small.
Tips
- 1Swap the bottle for a can, it's a third less.
- 2Go Zero for the everyday one and keep the full sugar for when you actually want it.
- 3Fizzy water with ice and a slice of lime scratches a surprising amount of the same itch.
Where it comes from
The first glass of Coca-Cola was poured on 8 May 1886 at Jacobs' Pharmacy in Atlanta, where pharmacist John Pemberton brought his new syrup. It cost five cents a glass and sold about nine glasses a day in its first year. His bookkeeper Frank Robinson picked the name, thinking the two Cs would look good in adverts, and wrote it in the flowing script still on the can.
Read the full story · Where does our food come from? · Source: The Coca-Cola Company, The Birth of a Refreshing Idea
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Questions
How many calories in a 500 ml bottle of Coke?
About 210 kcal, from 53 g of sugar.
How many calories in 100 ml of cola?
About 42 kcal, with about 10.6 g of sugar.
How many calories in a glass of Coke?
A 200 ml glass is about 84 kcal and a 250 ml one about 105. Lots of ice in the glass means less cola in it.
How many teaspoons of sugar in a can of Coke?
Almost 9. A can has 35 g of sugar and a teaspoon is about 4 g. The 500 ml bottle has 53 g, about 13 teaspoons.
How many calories in a 1.5 litre bottle of Coke?
About 630, three times the 500 ml bottle. A 2 litre bottle is about 840, so a big bottle shared at a party adds up quickly.
Does Coke Zero have calories?
About 1 kcal a can, which is close enough to nothing. Diet Coke is the same.
Is cola higher than orange juice?
A can of cola is 139 kcal and a 200 ml glass of orange juice is 110, so they're closer than most people think.
How much caffeine is in a can of cola?
About 32 mg in a 330 ml can of regular Coca-Cola. A mug of filter coffee has roughly three times that.
Did you know?
In its first year, 1886, Coca-Cola sold about nine drinks a day, poured at a pharmacy in Atlanta.
Drink facts · Source: The Coca-Cola Company
