Sweetened beverages like fizzy drinks, sweetened fruit juice, juice-milk blends and milky coffee drinks may quench your thirst, but they can also add loads of unwanted kilojoules and sugar to your daily intake...

Also people don't tend to eat less when they drink their kilojoules because in most cases drinking liquid kilojoules doesn’t make you feel full.

Drink water first and swap sweetened drinks for low or no-kilojoule options like unsweetened tea or coffee

Try these low-sugar beverage ideas:

Unsweetened coffee or tea is a good option.

For flavour-infused water, add any of the following to ice-cold water: sliced citrus fruits or zest (lemon, lime, orange, grapefruit; crushed fresh mint or other herbs; peeled, sliced fresh ginger or sliced cucumber

Try fruit or spice flavoured herbal 'teas' (these are mostly not really tea, but infusions), like berry fruits or vanilla chai.

Make your own sparkling juice at home with by adding about 30-60 ml of fruit juice to a glass of sparkling water and top off with a slice of citrus fruit. This drink will be substantially lower in kilojoules than commercially made sparkling fruit juice.