There’s a restriction on how much caffeine can be added to cola soft drinks and energy drinks, but not iced coffee products. Foods with guarana (a plant with high levels of natural caffeine) must also be labelled as containing caffeine.
Iced coffee caffeine content code#
The Food Standards Code requires added-caffeine products to have a statement on the label that they contain caffeine, but they don’t have to disclose how much. Nestle told us it will add caffeine content to its Nescafe range at its next packaging change. Seven drinks, including the four Suntory Boss offerings, don’t disclose the caffeine content and we had to search online for the Nescafe caffeine hit.įrucor Suntory, the manufacturer of Suntory Boss, told us that when coffee is brewed caffeine levels can vary due to the variety of bean used, processing method and where the coffee is prepared. In comparison, a cup of instant coffee contains about 80mg and a double-shot flat white 218mg. The caffeine hit of these drinks range from 20mg per 250ml (Mammoth Iced Coffee, Mammoth Mocha and Primo Creamy Coffee Flavoured Milk) to 238mg (Lewis Road Creamery Double Espresso Strength Milk Coffee). The soy variety was the worst offender – nearly four teaspoons per glass. Vitasoy’s Almond Milk and Soy Milk plant-based coffee drinks also both contain added sugar. That’s why it has a higher energy content than the other coffee milks.
Puhoi Valley’s product also contains cream. If you drank an entire 500ml bottle of Wave, you’d knock back about 12 teaspoons of the sweet stuff.Īlthough some of the sugar comes from naturally occurring lactose (food labelling rules don’t require added sugars to be listed separately and these companies didn’t disclose this information when we asked), that’s a lot more sugar than most people would add to their regular coffee fix. Wave Iced Coffee and Puhoi Valley Fresh Milk with Colombian Espresso were the worst offenders – per 250 ml both had nearly six teaspoons of total sugar. For an adult, five percent is about 25g or six teaspoons. The World Health Organization recommends free or added sugars should make up less than 10 percent of your daily energy intake (less than five percent is suggested for additional health benefits).
Iced coffee caffeine content plus#
But of the 22 dairy-based drinks in our survey, 17 had added sugar and two had added sugar plus an intense sweetener. Milk naturally contains the sugar lactose (about 12g/250ml). However, downing some of the larger drinks in one go means you’ll be getting a super-sized hit of sugar and caffeine.
The drinks ranged in size from 237ml to 600ml so, for a fair comparison, we’ve compared the nutrition information per 250ml (about one cup).
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