Consumer Agency surveys 29 major coffee and beverage franchises
41% of sweet coffees and beverages, exceeding the appropriate amount of sugar per day
Consuming too much sugar can cause obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure
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There are many people who want to overcome their drowsiness with sweet coffee or drinks in springtime, when spring fatigue is in full swing like these days.
However, attention is needed because the average amount of calories in coffee or beverages from major domestic franchises is more than one bowl, and 41% of them contain more sugar than the recommended daily intake.
Reporter Lee Seung-yoon on the report.
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On a lazy spring day, citizens are overcoming spring fatigue with sweet coffee or drinks.
[이정우 / 회사원 : 스트레스 받을 때 단 걸 먹으면 날아가는 것 같아요. 하루에 한번? 하루에 한번!]
Behind the refreshing feeling of sweet coffee or beverage is the sugar and high calorie.
As a result of a survey by the Korea Consumer Agency on syrup and fruit-added products sold at 29 major coffee and beverage franchises with more than 200 stores in Korea,
Coffee was 285kcal, and smoothie and ade were 372kcal, which was higher than the 272kcal of calories in a bowl of rice.
The average sugar content of smoothies and aids was 65g, exceeding 40g of carbonated drinks and 50g of sugar intake per day.
In particular, 24 of the 58 coffees and beverages sold at these stores exceeded the recommended daily intake of 50g.
In this survey, we selected the sweetest and most calorie products.
The sugar in this product is 107g, which is more than double the daily intake, and the calorific value of this product is 721kcal, equivalent to 2 and a half bowls of rice.
Excessive intake of sugars can cause chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure, so it has been shown that coffee and beverage stores need to expand the nutritional information labeling like in the United States.
[심성보 / 한국소비자원 식의약안전팀장 : 조사 대상 프랜차이즈의 영양 표시 현황을 확인한 결과, 29개 중 22개 사업자가 매장 또는 홈페이지를 통해 영양 성분 정보를 제공하고 있었습니다.]
The Korea Consumer Agency asks coffee and beverage specialty store operators to comply with the guidelines for labeling autonomous nutrition in food service companies,
We recommended 7 businesses label their nutrition facts.
This is YTN Lee Seung-yoon.
YTN Lee Seung-yoon (risungyoon@ytn.co.kr)
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