Some ready-mixed alcoholic drinks have 'more sugar than nine custard creams'
Some ‘ready to drink’ alcoholic products sold in supermarkets contain as much as nine teaspoons of sugar in just 250ml, a new report has claimed.
Action on Sugar said that nine out of 10 pre-mixed spirits do not have on-pack sugar information and warned that consumers are unaware of the very large amounts they are drinking.
The organisation surveyed a total of 202 ‘ready to drink’ alcoholic beverages sold in-store and online. For those that had a lack of nutritional information, it commissioned an independent laboratory analysis of 21 products.