Calories in Beverages
Drinks and their calorie content. 21 beverages with detailed nutrition.
Beverages at a glance
Best beverages for weight loss
Lowest calorie, highest satiety, hardest to overdo:
Coffee
Black coffee is 5 calories per cup with mild appetite suppression and consistent links to lower mortality at 2-4 cups/day. Syrups and full-cream lattes are where the calories sneak in.
Green Tea
Effectively zero calories, plus EGCG catechins with modest evidence for fat oxidation in active people. A 2-3 cup daily habit costs nothing and stacks small wins.
Espresso
1 calorie per shot. Highest caffeine-per-volume of any common drink. Peak buzz without the bladder problem of brewed coffee.
Matcha
Whisked powdered green tea, 3-5 calories per cup, higher antioxidant load than steeped tea, and slower caffeine release that avoids the espresso crash.
All beverages (21)
Coffee
2 cal / 1 cup black coffee (8 oz)
0.3g protein • 0g carbs • 0g fat
Beer
153 cal / 12 oz regular beer
0.5g protein • 3.5g carbs • 0g fat
Wine
125 cal / 5 oz red wine
0.1g protein • 3.8g carbs • 0g fat
Orange Juice
112 cal / 1 cup (8 oz)
0.7g protein • 10.4g carbs • 0.2g fat
Green Tea
1 cal / 100g
0.2g protein • 0g carbs • 0g fat
Soda
43 cal / 100g
0g protein • 11.2g carbs • 0g fat
Lemonade
96 cal / 1 glass (8 oz)
0.1g protein • 10.4g carbs • 0g fat
Apple Juice
48 cal / 100g
0.1g protein • 11.4g carbs • 0.3g fat
Coconut Water
19 cal / 100g
0.7g protein • 3.7g carbs • 0.2g fat
Espresso
3 cal / 1 shot
0.1g protein • 1.7g carbs • 0.2g fat
Cappuccino
65 cal / 1 medium
1.7g protein • 2.8g carbs • 1g fat
Chai Latte
190 cal / 12 oz (medium)
2.2g protein • 8.5g carbs • 1.5g fat
Matcha
5 cal / 1 cup matcha (8 oz)
0.2g protein • 0g carbs • 0g fat
Arnold Palmer
82 cal / 1 cup (8 oz)
0.2g protein • 9.2g carbs • 0.1g fat
Hot Chocolate
185 cal / 1 cup (8 oz)
3.5g protein • 10.7g carbs • 2.3g fat
Strawberry Banana Smoothie
158 cal / 1 cup (8 oz)
2.3g protein • 12g carbs • 1.1g fat
Green Smoothie
154 cal / 1 cup (8 oz)
1.6g protein • 12.7g carbs • 0.7g fat
Protein Smoothie
190 cal / 1 cup (8 oz)
7.4g protein • 10g carbs • 1.2g fat
Acai Smoothie
149 cal / 1 cup (8 oz)
0.8g protein • 12.8g carbs • 0.8g fat
Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie
224 cal / 1 cup (8 oz)
4.5g protein • 11.5g carbs • 3.5g fat
Protein Shake
198 cal / 1 bottle (11 oz)
6.6g protein • 0.8g carbs • 3.4g fat
The hidden-calorie drinks
These look benign and quietly deliver hundreds of calories per serving:
Lemonade
100-150 cal per cup with 25g+ sugar. Pure liquid sugar with no satiety value.
Soda
150 cal per 12oz can with 39g sugar. A daily can = ~15 lb annual weight gain if calories aren't offset somewhere.
Beer
150-250 cal per 12oz depending on style. And the appetite disinhibition matters more than the calories themselves.
About beverages
Liquid calories are the single most under-tracked driver of unintended weight gain. A vanilla latte, an afternoon soda, and a beer with dinner is 550 calories you never thought of as eating. Enough to erase a real deficit five days a week.
The mechanism is settled in feeding studies: liquid calories don't trigger satiety the way solid food does. Drink a 200-calorie smoothie and you'll eat nearly the same lunch as if you hadn't.
Tips for eating beverages
Log every drink for one week
Most people lowball their beverage calories by 200-400 a day. One week of honest logging. Every coffee, every drink with dinner, every weekend cocktail. Surfaces the pattern. Once you see it, you can fix it.
Keep a 32oz water bottle on your desk
Refill twice during the workday and you've hit baseline hydration without thinking. Mild dehydration in the afternoon presents as hunger and fatigue. Most people eat when they should be drinking.
Order coffee small and unsweetened
A grande Caramel Frappuccino is 400+ calories. A grande iced coffee with a splash of milk is 30. The syrup pumps and whip are doing 90% of the calorie damage. Unsweetened with whatever milk you like is a 90% calorie cut.
Treat smoothies as a meal
A 'healthy' green smoothie with banana + peanut butter + protein powder + milk + frozen mango runs 500-700 calories. That's a meal, not a between-meal drink. Either replace lunch or shrink the recipe.
Have alcohol with food, not before
Alcohol is 7 cal/g (more than carbs or protein) and disinhibits eating decisions. The post-drinking pizza is the hidden second cost. Eating first blunts the appetite spike and the next-day calorie tax. Two drinks max if weight loss is the goal.
Diet soda is fine if it actually replaces sugar
The artificial sweetener panic is weak in the research. For someone swapping a daily Coke (39g sugar) for Diet Coke (0g), the math is overwhelmingly positive. Where it fails: when diet soda becomes a permission slip to eat extra elsewhere.
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Last updated: Apr 24, 2026