Is it a cocktail or a donut?

When we need a sugar fix, we quickly reach for cookies, candy, pastries or lots of Nutella. Or a donut with Nutella. But you could also simply go for a cocktail. These cocktails contain just as much sugar as, or even more than, a Krispy Kreme donut. 

10 grams of sugar

An average donut contains ten grams of sugar. A simple Aperol spritz already contains nineteen grams. A Pimm’s, a cocktail made with spicy Pimm’s liqueur and ginger ale or lemonade, contains over 25 grams of sugar. That’s three-quarters of your daily sugar requirement.

A piña colada contains thirteen grams and a pornstar martini sixteen grams. Other cocktails with more than ten grams of sugar are the strawberry daiquiri (seventeen grams) and the sex on the beach (seventeen grams).

The skinny bitch cocktail

Would you rather have less sugar in your cocktail because you always watch your calories? Then go for the cosmopolitan with eight grams of sugar, a mojito with four grams of sugar or a gin fizz with five grams of sugar. The margarita has the lowest sugar content: it contains just 0.3 grams.