Calories in unsweet iced tea?

jbrooks3645

I make a gallon of tea using luzianne tea bags I dnt add any sugar. Is there any calories? The only thing I'm using are tea bags and water. The box of tea bags says 0 calories and water ofcourse 0 calories. But I'm seeing online that unsweet tea has 2 calories per cup then I'm seeing some entry's on mfp that's showing unsweet tea having up to 30 calories. It's got me a little confused.

BigTandthesquatters

Are any of those exampled bottled tea(s)? I myself have always recorded my home made sun-tea just bags and water like you as zero calories. Sometimes bottled tea from the store has something added that has calories even tiny amounts. Other than that I got nada.

jbrooks3645

A few entry's were from restaurants like subway and McDonald's

malibu927

Legally in the US if an item has fewer than 5 calories per serving, the manufacturer can list it as 0 calories. So if you made a gallon 30-32 calories for the entire thing sounds about right.

BrianKMcFalls

Black tea (what you brewed) has about 2 calories per cup. Manufacturers can put 0 calories per serving on anything that has less than 5 calories per serving.

NovusDies

I didn't know tea had calories so I have learned something new today.

Lounmoun

I have never bothered logging my occasional glass of unsweetened tea.
I see 2 calories listed on the internet for 6 oz of unsweetened tea. A gallon would have about 42 calories then. If you drink a whole gallon of tea in a day you could log 30-42 calories and probably cover it.

jbrooks3645

malibu927 wrote: »

Legally in the US if an item has fewer than 5 calories per serving, the manufacturer can list it as 0 calories. So if you made a gallon 30-32 calories for the entire thing sounds about right.

Ahh ok it makes sense now. That's what was confusing me that the package had 0 calories lol 30-32 calories to a gallon is wayyy better that the 150 calories for one can of Dr pepper