Cocktail Sugar Calculator
The liquor is rarely the problem. See what the mixer is really costing you.
Your night with Tonic water
88 g
sugar · about 22 sugar packets
748
calories tonight
428
with a zero-sugar mixer
Swapping the mixer saves 320 calories tonight and about 15,360 calories a year at your current pace.
Why the mixer decides everything
A 1.5 oz pour of vodka, gin, tequila, whiskey, or rum is roughly 97 calories and zero sugar. Every gram of sugar in a cocktail comes from what you pour on top. Tonic is sweetened soda. "Juice cocktail" is diluted and sweetened. Bar margarita mix is closer to a dessert than a drink.
Sugar also makes the next morning worse. Your liver processes fructose and ethanol on the same shift, and sweet mixers mask the taste of alcohol so consumption climbs without you noticing.
Keep reading