25 spoons of sugar in some beverages from Starbucks!

The British NGO Action on Sugar goes to war against the big coffee chains like Starbucks or Costa and calls to reduce the added sugar in their hot drinks. 

According to their study, some hot drinks contain up to 25 teaspoons of sugar!

By drinking every morning coffee caramel bought in a large coffee chain store, you put your health at risk. 

A study by the British NGO Action Sugar produced in the UK and relayed by the British newspaper The Guardian, 98% of hot drinks served at these specialty shops contain excessive levels of sugar.

According to the study, 35% of served beverages have the same amount of sugar or even more than a can of Coke contains 9 teaspoons of sugar. Are in the sights of the NGO, the giant Starbucks, Costa Coffee stores or the brand of fast food KFC.

On the podium of the most sugary drinks include in the first place the tea at Starbucks fruit, "hot spiced fruit grape" in "venti" (medium) version is 568 ml. With 25 spoons of sugar, it provides three times the amount of sugar daily recommended adult (6 teaspoons about a day recommended by the WHO).

In second place the "chai latte" of Costa (Indian spiced tea blend and smoothie), totalling 20 teaspoons of sugar. Then the "white mocha" Starbucks also won his medal, and 500 ml version with whipped cream, who represents 18 spoons of sugar, counting carbohydrates already present in the milk. The combination pine also the sizes of drinks sold by Starbucks, in her two times larger than competing formats.

According to The Guardian, nearly 20% of Britons attend every day what kind of coffee. Not to mention that the UK also has the highest rate of obesity in Europe, cause of many cardiovascular diseases.

No wonder Graham MacGregor, professor of cardiovascular medicine at Queen Mary University of London and president of the NGO: "This is again an example of the outrageous rate of sugar added to our food and drink. 

No wonder our obesity rate is the highest in Europe." Nicola Close, chief public health management believes, in turn, essential to establishing greater transparency on the sugar content of which would pass through a visible labelling of all.

Kawther Hashem, nutritionist and researcher of the association, demanded by the coffee chains, reducing the amount of sugar in hot drinks, improved labelling and the cessation of sales of portions XXL : “These flavoured beverages should be an occasional treat, not a drink for every day."

They are loaded with sugar and often accompanied by a fatty snack. "Without asking for a boycott of stores, the association advises clients to" order drinks without sugar or with a minimal amount of syrup in the smallest size available."

Contacted by The Guardian, Starbucks defended himself by saying that the sign had already committed to reduce by 25% the level of sugar in its drinks by 2020 and reminded that nutritional information was available in stores and online. 

Costa also said that salt reduction targets and added sugar were to be implemented by 2020.