1 teaspoon of sugar, how many calories?

[mercemployee]

Just making my morning brew (with two sugars) and worked out that as I tend to have 5-7 brews a day, I am having
10-14 teaspoons of sugar a day, and I am wondering how many calories can I save by switching to sweeteners?

p.s. I know there are loads of places on the internet that can tell me this easily, but our uber-restrictive IT policy means this is one of only three sites of interest I can get to (the others being autotrader and autocar), so you guys get to answer my query.

Also, any other ideas on where I might be wasting calories woudl be welcomed.

Cheers

[Plotloss]

15 calories in a level teaspoon (4g) of sugar apparently.

25 calories in a heaped teaspoon (6g)

Edited by Plotloss on Tuesday 13th May 08:57

[Big Alf]

so thats approx 30 Kcals cup, average 6 cups a day for say at least 300 days a year = approx 54000 kcals a year, the equivalent to 15.4 lbs of fat!!! Now there's a thought!

[mercemployee]

Got a bit sidetracked with some work to do earlier but was going to post the same thing. I waste 300 calories a day on sugar in my tea. Oh. My. God!

Time to buy some sweeteners for my cups of tea, and then I can have a mars bar EVERY DAY!

Anyone else noticed ways to easily waste calories?

[lingus75]

mercemployee said:

Got a bit sidetracked with some work to do earlier but was going to post the same thing. I waste 300 calories a day on sugar in my tea. Oh. My. God!

Time to buy some sweeteners for my cups of tea, and then I can have a mars bar EVERY DAY!

Anyone else noticed ways to easily waste calories?

Using too much butter on hot toast as it soaks in and tastes so nice, just have to put a bit more on! Also, that extra chunk of cheese to eat by itself as you make a cheese sarnie....

[WhoreLex]

or you could do what normal people do and not have sugar in your tea?

I never get the point of adding sugar to stuff, same with salt

it just makes it taste of sugar?

I.e. removes the original taste.

[Penny-lope]

thegavster said:

Drink just water now, much better for you!

Scary to think that just the tea you're drinking is costing you up to 20% of your daily RDA of calories.

That's exactly what i do too...limit my tea intake to one cup a day, and just drink water instead of the usual brews through out the day.

That way you can still have a little treat, to make up for all the Cals you've just saved

[Tuscan Tart]

I have 3 sugars in a cup of coffee, and usually drink gallons of the stuff. Have now switched to splenda, the nicest sweetner by far and 2 only cals per teaspoon.

[WhoreLex]

shame that it will increase your chance of stomach cancer.

If you want to have sugar, use the natural stuff not this man made crud.

[AndyAudi]

weLex said:

shame that it will increase your chance of stomach cancer.

If you want to have sugar, use the natural stuff not this man made crud.

I've read 5 cups or more of green tea reduces the chance of Prostate Cancer by 40-50%

[bint]

AndyAudi said:

I've read 5 cups or more of green tea reduces the chance of Prostate Cancer by 40-50%

Much as I love green tea - that sounds like alot - UNLESS we're talking chinese style cups - what I tend to use at home for green tea.

Haven't had sugar in my tea/coffee for years *smug face*, have a maximum of 2 cups black coffee a day and at least 1.5 litres water (do try for 2 but with one loo at work between 40 odd wimmen.......) and a couple of glasses juice too. I think I have a reasonable balance.

Hear what you're saying about the Hi Juice squashes and calories, but frankly they a) taste sooooo much better and b) saccharine just tastes wrong - if something tastes chemical and my body says 'ewww that's not natural' I listen to it and won't drink it. I doubt it's cancer inducing all these chemically made sweeteners, but they aren't right I know that...

[james700]

so thats approx 30 Kcals cup, average 6 cups a day for say at least 300 days a year = approx 54000 kcals a year, the equivalent to 15.4 lbs of fat!!! Now there's a thought!





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Edited by james700 on Monday 7th March 06:32

[andburg]

From a sports coaching course I did, per gram...approximate calories

Fats 9kcal
carbohydrates(inc sugars) 4kcal
proteins 4kcal

Heaped Teaspoon is 4.5g * 4Kcal = 18Kcal

Basic, but simple enough to use as a guide.

[soad]

Why is white sugar less expensive then brown sugar, when it has to go through so much more processing than brown sugar?

[calibrax]

soad said:

Why is white sugar less expensive then brown sugar, when it has to go through so much more processing than brown sugar?

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/12bet2/why_is_unrefined_sugar_more_expensive_than_white/