Hidden sugars
Out of 144 ciders:
Information is hidden
Out of 144 ciders:
This page changes that. Below you'll find information from authoritive sources. Facts come directly from brewers, and on occassion various government-run websites.
The best and worst ciders
The cider with the most sugar
The worst cider is Bulmers Toffee Apple, with 12.1 g of sugar per 100 ml. It contains more sugar than full-fat Coca-Cola. To compare, a ‘normal’ Coca-Cola contains around 10.6 g of sugar. There’s about 61 g of sugar in a 500 ml bottle of Bulmers Toffee Apple, which is over double the recommended amount of free daily sugars. Crazy.
The cider with the least sugar
The best cider is Stowford Press, with 1 g of sugar per 100 ml. In total, a pint will only have 6 g of sugar. It’s only 18% of the recommended amount of free daily sugars.
The types of cider with the lowest sugar content
Choose ciders that have an apple flavour. Ciders with added fruits and flavours tend to be more sugary. So avoid pear, raspberry and dark fruits ciders. Go for the more traditional ciders that taste less sweet. Dry ciders are best.
What is daily sugar?
The Daily sugar heading in the rankings below is the daily allowance of free sugars.
Free sugars are sugar in food and drinks that doesn’t add nutritional value. These will be most sugars in things like fruit juices, smoothies and honey.
The NHS recommends 30 g of free sugars a day. These are on top of the nutritional sugars contained in food. A balanced diet will contain sugars as part of your meals, but as cider is a nice bonus to have in our lives, we count the sugar in cider as free sugars. The percentages you see are out of the 30 g a day that the NHS recommends.
