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vitaminwater Essential
- Drinks
- Sports drinks
How much sugar is in vitaminwater Essential?
One 591 ml serving contains 27 g of sugar. That works out at roughly 6–7 sugar cubes, or 54 % of the 50 g daily orientation value.
- Brand
- vitaminwater
- Serving
- Bottle · 591 ml
- Sugar per 100 ml
- 4.6 g
- Market
- United States
About vitaminwater Essential
Water with vitamins, and two sugars behind them: crystalline fructose and cane sugar sit second and third on the label. At 4.6 g per 100 ml the concentration is low, about a third of a cola's — but the bottle is 20 fl oz, so the total comes to 27 g, roughly seven cubes.
Is that a lot of sugar?
Concentration
Medium sugar
4.6 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
A meaningful share of a typical day
The 591 ml serving carries 27 g — 54 % of the 50 g daily orientation value.
Overall composition
Nutri-Score C
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 vitaminwater Essential
| Per | 100 ml | 591 ml |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 81 kJ / 17 kcal | 476 kJ / 100 kcal |
| Fat | 0 g | 0 g |
| of which saturates | 0 g | 0 g |
| Carbohydrate | 4.7 g | 28 g |
| of which sugars | 4.6 g | 27 g |
| Fibre | — | — |
| Protein | 0 g | 0 g |
| Salt | 0 g | 0 g |
What is in vitaminwater Essential?
Reverse osmosis water, crystalline fructose, cane sugar, less than 0.5% of: citric acid, potassium phosphate and calcium lactate and magnesium lactate (electrolyte sources), natural flavors, vitamin C (ascorbic acid), gum acacia, vitamin B3 (niacinamide), vitamin E (alpha-tocopheryl acetate), vitamin B5 (calcium pantothenate), glycerol ester of rosin, vitamin B6 (pyridoxine hydrochloride), vitamin B12 (cyanocobalamin), beta-carotene, modified food starch, sorbitol.
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vitaminwater Essential
Bottle · 591 ml
27g
about 6–7 sugar cubes
4.6 g sugar / 100 ml
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about 6–7 sugar cubes
5.3 g sugar / 100 ml
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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 vitaminwater Essential
- How much sugar is in vitaminwater Essential?
- One 591 ml serving contains 27 g of sugar, which is 4.6 g per 100 ml.
- How many sugar cubes is that?
- Roughly 6–7 cubes at 4 g each, or 54 % of the WHO orientation value of 50 g of free sugars a day.
- How many calories are in vitaminwater Essential?
- One 591 ml serving provides about 100 kcal (476 kJ).
- What Nutri-Score does vitaminwater Essential have?
- Nutri-Score C, as computed by Open Food Facts using the published algorithm. It rates the nutritional composition per 100, not a whole diet.