How Many Calories In One Cup Of Tea With Milk And Sugar?

Tea itself contains zero calories. That is why tea is so popular in India, China and Britain. It also contains less caffeine per cup than coffee.

The calories in tea come from the milk and sugar. Roughly, one teaspoon of sugar has around 16-18 calories, and one teaspoon of powdered creamer (milk provided for tea/coffee) has 11 calories. Semi skimmed milk is around 10 calories per dash, and skimmed milk more like seven. Using this basis it's a simple case of maths and adding together the amount of each sugar and milk you have. The more you do the worse it is, but you're looking at around 50 calories - the same as a cookie.

There are so many variables though, specifically in the use of milk and sugar. The best milk is either skimmed milk, because that has the lowest fat content, or soya milk, but semi skimmed is also acceptable. Full fat or pasteurised milk tends to be creamier, so it's a case of taste versus calories. In America the option of cream itself is more common, as it is in more upmarket tea houses in the UK. Again, this is a calorie intake of quite substantial measures.

Sugar is also clearly a calorie minefield. Brown sugar or a sugar substitute is recommended if you must have it, but going without for around a week rids you of the ability to taste the difference and saves you from the intake of pointless calories.

The reason for tea's lack of calories is that it's packed with other nutrients. Tea contains a variety of antioxidants that scientists currently believe reduce the risk of cancers and generally boosts the immune system. Green tea has also been found to improve metabolic rates, whilst black tea lowers the stress hormone cortisol.

Too much blurp cut to the chase - cup of black tea no sugar - 2 calories. Cup of tea with skimmed milk 29 calories cup of tea with semi skimmed milk 30 calories and cup of tea milk full fat milk 53 calories. If you still take sugar in your tea then there really is no point in actually worrying about the calorie content is there  ???? Hummm because you are way too far behind pack....simple don't take extra sugar in anything ever !! Try not to put milk in your tea and if you do use skimmed..hope this helps..

Tea and sugar do not have any fat in them, so all the fat in tea with milk and sugar is from the milk. The amount of milk and the type of milk will then dictate how much fat there is. For example there is 1gram of fat in an ounce of 2% milk, which is 1% of your daily value and totals to 5 calories from fat.

Actually, I put sugar in my tea all the time.  One level teaspoon of sugar is only 16 cal.

That depends on how much sugar you put in and what kind of milk you put in

It mainly contain 50 calories  including 23 calories from FAT constituted by the milk(regular milk)  used in tea with 2 tablespoons of sugar.

Yeah, can't drink it without sugar. Proper nasty.

Worth the extra 2 x 16 calories for the sweet taste.

Mmmm, yummy.

Depends what colour you like your tea! I am convinced that we make tea according to colour - To make tea the correct colour using semi-skimmed milk we actually put in a lot more milk than we would whole milk - so your answer is probably less than it would be with semi- skimmed.