Rio Tropical Fruit Juice Drink 330 ml (Pack of 24)

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Adding a 5g teaspoon of sugar to 5 cups of tea or coffee adds the same as 20 rich tea biscuits or three Mars bars Rio, formerly known as Rio Riva and Arriva is a British brand of soft drink made by Hall & Woodhouse. Sign up to our fortnightly Heart Matters newsletter to receive healthy recipes, new activity ideas, and expert tips for managing your health. Joining is free and takes two minutes. I’d like to sign-up 2. Tea or coffee without sugar Additionally, the non-alcoholic Rio, which is a sparkling fruit juice beverage, is available online from distributors who will ship globally. While the marketing suggests that these drinks will give you more energy, there aren’t any approved claims that consuming food and drinks supplemented with these ingredients can help to reduce fatigue, enhance endurance, help with energy metabolism or act as an antioxidant. In reality, the energy in energy drinks mainly comes from sugar.

Quinine has been found to interact with some medications has been linked with irregular heart rhythms Many coffee shops now do “iced” versions of these drinks, but bear in mind that these won’t be any lower in fat and calories.

3. Sugar-free drinks e.g. sugar-free cola, sugar-free lemonade, and no-added-sugar squash 

Although there’s not much to choose between this category and the last category, ice-cream milkshakes come out as worst in our list thanks to the combination of sugar and fat. We’ve ranked 13 popular drinks from best to worst based on their nutritional value – in particular sugar and fat. Read on to quench your thirst the heart-healthy way. 1. Water Serving size was standardised to 330ml, regular can size. Although many varieties are available in a 330ml can size, some bottles provide 250ml as a serving size and were recalculated by Action on Sugar as 330ml If you are drinking these type of drinks to energise yourself for an exercisesession, be aware that the sugar they contain could mean you consume more calories than you burn, which is a disadvantage if you are trying to lose weight. If you’re at home, make a heart-healthy hot chocolate by mixing unsweetened cocoa powder with hot low-fat milk, and low-calorie sweetener if needed.

A regular ice cream milkshake can have twice the calories of a similar sized full-sugar cola, but if you go for extras such as chocolate or biscuits blended in, the calories go even higher. These drinks contain artificial sweeteners, which will provide a sweet taste but won’t have an effect on blood sugar levels, which is good for people with diabetes. Being almost calorie-free, they also mean that the amount of energy provided by the drinks is reduced compared to sugar containing versions. However, the jury is still out about whether this will lead to weight loss or whether people consciously or unconsciously make up for the energy difference by eating more. Seven of the top ten drinks with the highest amount of sugar are ginger beer flavoured beverages. Old Jamaica ginger beer, which tops the list has 52g of sugar per 330ml serving (15.7g of sugar per 100g) - the equivalent of 13 teaspoons of sugar. In comparison, Coca Cola and Pepsi have the equivalent of nine teaspoons of sugar per 330ml serving. In 2021, Rio entered a partnership deal with Boost Drinks, with the company overseeing the sales, marketing and distribution of Rio. [10] [11]Pearlfisher Redesigns Tropical Soft Drink Brand, 'Rio' ". Logo Designer. 9 May 2017 . Retrieved 9 October 2021. The survey looked at the sugar per 100g and per portion of 232 carbonated soft drink products from nine supermarkets: Aldi, Asda, Lidl, The Co-operative, Morrisons, M&S, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose. It included supermarket own and branded products