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A&W Root Beer
- Drinks
- Soft drinks
How much sugar is in A&W Root Beer?
One 500 ml serving contains 64 g of sugar. That works out at roughly 16 sugar cubes, or 128 % of the 50 g daily orientation value.
- Brand
- A&W
- Serving
- Bottle · 500 ml
- Sugar per 100 ml
- 12.8 g
- Market
- United States
About A&W Root Beer
Root beer is sweeter than it tastes, because the vanilla and sassafras notes cover a lot: 12.8 g per 100 ml puts it just above a cola. The 16.9 fl oz bottle is the other half — 64 g of sugar, more than a whole day's orientation value in one bottle.
Is that a lot of sugar?
Concentration
High sugar
12.8 g of sugar per 100 ml. The UK front-of-pack scheme calls a drink low up to 2.5 g and high above 11.25 g per 100 ml.
In one serving
Above the daily orientation value
The 500 ml serving carries 64 g — 128 % of the 50 g daily orientation value.
Overall composition
Nutri-Score E
Computed by Open Food Facts using the published Nutri-Score algorithm. Not assigned or endorsed by the manufacturer.
Nutri-Score grades the whole nutritional composition per 100 — energy, sugars, saturated fat and salt against fibre, protein and fruit or vegetable content — on a scale from A to E. It is a European front-of-pack scheme. It rates a product, not a diet, and says nothing about how much of it you drink.
Concentration follows the UK Department of Health front-of-pack thresholds for total sugars. The serving reading follows the WHO orientation value for free sugars. Nutri-Score is reproduced from the source named above. All three are applied mechanically to the declared figures for the market shown. None of them is a judgement about the product, and none is medical or dietary advice — what a given amount of sugar means for you depends on your whole diet and circumstances.
Nutrition facts for A&W Root Beer
| Per | 100 ml | 500 ml |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 224 kJ / 48 kcal | 1,122 kJ / 240 kcal |
| Fat | 0 g | 0 g |
| of which saturates | — | — |
| Carbohydrate | 13.2 g | 66 g |
| of which sugars | 12.8 g | 64 g |
| Fibre | — | — |
| Protein | 0 g | 0 g |
| Salt | 0.06 g | 0.29 g |
What is in A&W Root Beer?
Carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup, caramel color, sodium benzoate (preservative), natural and artificial flavors, quillaia extract.
Soft drinks compared
A&W Root Beer
Bottle · 500 ml
64g
16 sugar cubes
12.8 g sugar / 100 ml
Mtn Dew
Can · 355 ml
46g
about 11–12 sugar cubes
13 g sugar / 100 ml
Pepsi
Can · 355 ml
41g
about 10–11 sugar cubes
11.6 g sugar / 100 ml
7UP
Can · 355 ml
38g
about 9–10 sugar cubes
10.7 g sugar / 100 ml
Coca-Cola Zero Sugar
Can · 355 ml
0g
0 sugar cubes
0 g sugar / 100 ml
Same market only — figures for another country are not comparable. Sorted by sugar per serving.
Common questions about A&W Root Beer
- How much sugar is in A&W Root Beer?
- One 500 ml serving contains 64 g of sugar, which is 12.8 g per 100 ml.
- How many sugar cubes is that?
- Roughly 16 cubes at 4 g each, or 128 % of the WHO orientation value of 50 g of free sugars a day.
- How many calories are in A&W Root Beer?
- One 500 ml serving provides about 240 kcal (1,122 kJ).
- What Nutri-Score does A&W Root Beer have?
- Nutri-Score E, as computed by Open Food Facts using the published algorithm. It rates the nutritional composition per 100, not a whole diet.