Many consumers who’ve taken to popular bottles teas and the hot Chai served at coffee houses have the mistaken notion that they are low calorie and good for you.
Tealeaves or teabags have zero calories. That means tea without milk and sugar has no calories whereas tea with sugar and milk contains calories. The amount of calories in tea depends upon the quantity of sugar and milk added. Generally one teaspoon sugar contains 16 calories, one teaspoon of powdered creamer contains 11 calories and if we add sugar and creamer then it will contain 54 calories.
When iced tea is made from teabag, water and ice cubes. It has zero calories but when sugar is added then it gets calories. “Commercial mix’ iced tea has higher calories than an iced tea because of added sweetener.
One big cup of commercial mix iced tea has calories same as the calories in 4 cookies. Generally 1 cookie contains 50 calories. Thus 4 cookies have 200 calories. So one big cup of commercial iced tea would have almost 200 calories which way is too high.