How much sugar is in your favourite ice lollies?

Handy if your kids love the stuff, and you'd prefer to pick a slightly less sweet option...

Keep in mind that kids aged 4 – 6 are recommended to have 19g (approx 4 + ¾ teaspoons) of sugar a day - and 24g (approx 6 teaspoons) for kids aged 7 – 10…

Important things to note

Measuring in tsp isn’t an exact science – some like a level teaspoon, whereas others would heap the sugar on high.

For the sake of our test (and measuring out the sugar in the pics), we’ve worked things out in level teaspoons, equaling 4g each.

Also, we should add here that when measuring out sugar for the pics, we've done a tiny bit of rounding up where necessary (e.g. we've used 8g where it says 8.1g, and 11g where it says 10.9g).

Ranked from lowest sugar to highest, here’s the sugar content for popular ice lollies (per lolly)…

1. Jude’s Mini Milks (Vanilla & Strawberry) - 2.8g sugar / approx ¾ tsp

2. Wall's Mini Milks 23g – 4.1g sugar / approx 1 tsp

3. Mr Freeze Strawberry Jubbly Lollies - 4g sugar / approx 1 tsp

4. Twister Mini – 7g sugar / approx 1 + ¾ tsp

5. Wall's Funny Feet - 8g sugar / approx 2 tsp

6. Ms Molly’s Choc Ice – 8.1g sugar / approx 2 tsp

7. Tesco Rocket Lolly – 8.5g sugar / approx 2 + ¼ tsp

8. Fab – 10.9g sugar / approx 2 + ¾ tsp

9. Smarties Ice Cream Cone – 11.6g sugars / approx 3 tsp

10. Fruit Pastille Lolly (65ml) – 13.3g sugar / approx 3 + ¼ tsp

11. Jude’s Ice Cream Mini Tub (Very Vanilla, 100ml) – 13.9g sugars / approx 3 + ½ tsp

12. Exotic Solero - 17g sugar / approx 4 + ¼ tsp

13. Vimto Mixed Fruit (100ml) - 18.8g sugar l / approx 4 + ¾ tsp

14. Feast Original – 19g sugar / approx 4 + ¾ tsp

15. Calippo Orange – 20g sugar / approx 5 tsp

16. Nobbly Bobbly – 23.3g sugar / approx 5 + ¾ tsp

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Elizabeth Atkin