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Healthy Eating: Healthier Beverage Options1

Emily Minton2

Use this chart to help replace beverages high in sugar or fat with healthier alternatives.

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Tables

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Instead of…

Try…

Regular coffee with cream, whole milk or 2% milk, and sugar

Regular coffee with low-fat or fat-free milk and (one) artificial sweetener

Sweet tea

Unsweet tea. Add one artificial sweetener for a sweeter taste.

Regular soda

Diet soda or a glass of seltzer water with a splash of 100% fruit juice

Whole or 2% milk

1% low-fat or fat-free milk

Lemonade

Club soda with lemon or lime juice

Fruit punch or fruit-ade

100% fruit juice

Vegetable juice

Low-sodium vegetable juice

Shake made with ice cream, fruit, and added sugar

Smoothie made with low-fat frozen yogurt and fruit

Footnotes

1.

La versión en español de este documento es Alimentación Saludable: Opciones de bebidas más saludales (FCS80011-Span). This document is FCS80011, one of a series of the Family Youth and Community Sciences Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date March 2012. Visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.

2.

Emily Minton, ENAFS program coordinator, Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences; Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences; University of Florida; Gainesville, FL 32611.

The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) is an Equal Opportunity Institution authorized to provide research, educational information and other services only to individuals and institutions that function with non-discrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations. For more information on obtaining other extension publications, contact your county Cooperative Extension service.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A. & M. University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating. Nick T. Place, Dean.