Every cold drink across UK restaurant and coffee chains broken down by size, with sugar in teaspoons against NHS daily free sugar limits.
Iced and blended drinks are frequently the highest-sugar items on a menu, well above the desserts. Cold masks sweetness, so a drink that does not taste especially sugary can carry twenty teaspoons.
Frappe-style drinks combine syrup, sauce, milk and cream, and routinely exceed 50g of sugar in a large. That is more than double an adult's daily free sugar limit.
Milkshakes carry lactose alongside added sugar, so the free sugar figure sits below the total, but the added portion alone usually exceeds a child's daily allowance.
An iced americano is close to zero. The same size iced latte with syrup can be several hundred calories, and the difference is entirely in what is added.
Caffeine in cold coffee is often higher than the hot equivalent, because larger cups take more shots. Worth knowing when ordering for older children.
Each product page includes a full nutrition breakdown per serving and per pack, portion size comparisons, age-adjusted NHS daily reference intake calculations for children aged 4 to 17, an interactive calculator for your child's specific age and gender, and a complete ingredient and allergen guide.
