[C]alorie [C]riminals

(Interesting Tidbit)

Total calories in popular beverages:

Soda

• Soda (20-oz. bottle) = 250 calories

• 7-Eleven Big Gulp (32 oz.) = 400 calories

• Large movie theater soda (44 oz.) = 550 calories

• 7-Eleven Double Big Gulp (64 oz.) = 800 calories

Tea and Coffee Drinks

• Snapple Peach Iced Tea (16-oz. bottle) = 200 calories

• Arizona Lemon Iced Tea (20 oz.) = 225 calories

• Starbucks Mocha Frappuccino:

  • Tall (12 oz.) = 200 calories

  • Grande (16 oz.) = 260 calories

  • Venti (24 oz.) = 380 calories

• Starbucks Caramel Macchiato Grande (16 oz.) = 270 calories

• Starbucks Chai Iced Tea Latte Grande (16 oz.) 260 calories

• Dunkin' Donuts, Coffee Coolatta (16 oz. w/2% milk) = 190 calories

Fruit Beverages

• Jamba Juice: Banana Berry (classic smoothie):

  • 16 oz. = 280 calories

  • 24 oz. Original = 450 calories

  • 30 oz. Power = 600 calories

• POM Pomegranate Juice (16 oz.) = 320 calories

• Orange Juice (pint container, 16 oz.) = 220 calories

• Orange Juice (one cup) = 110 calories

• Naked Juice, Orange Mango Motion (16-oz. container) = 240 calories

• Odwalla Citrus C Monster (16-oz. container) = 300 calories

• Country Time lemonade (12-oz. can) = 130 calories

• Minute Maid lemonade (20-oz. bottle) = 260 calories

Flavored Waters and Sports Drinks

• Vitamin Water (20-oz bottle) = 125 calories

• Life Water (20 oz.) = 125 calories

• Gatorade (20 oz.) = 125 calories

Joy Bauer, M.S., R.D., C.D.N. says - Trim 500 liquid calories from your daily diet and you'll save 3,500 calories a week. That's potentially one pound of fat lost per week and more than 50 pounds lost at the end of the year.