High street Christmas coffees crammed with 11 spoons…

High street Christmas coffees crammed with 11 spoons of sugar

Christmas is just around the corner, which means it's the season to indulge.

And it’s quite hard not to when your favourite coffee shops have all released their festive specials.

But what's in them - and how much sugar are you actually consuming in that salted caramel, orange flavoured, macchiato with extra cream on top?

Well, the results are in - with the nutritional values of our favourite drinks at five major coffee chains in the UK - Starbucks, Costa, Caffè Nero, Pret a Manger and Greggs, revealed.

Retail marketplace, OnBuy, looked at the number of calories and grams of sugar in each festive hot drink in order to see who slips in the most sugar and which contain the most calories before additional sweeteners are added by the customer.

Caffe Nero serves the ‘healthiest’ festive drink in 2019, with 14.9g of sugar in their Ginger Latte (Getty)

All drinks tested were regular sized (roughly 12 oz) and contained skimmed milk.

The report found the festive drink with the most grams of sugar was Pret’s Mint Hot Chocolate, which contained 47.9g - the equivalent of 11.4 teaspoons.

In second place was another Pret a Manger festive drink, the Hazelnut Hot Chocolate, which contained the same whopping amount of sugar.

These drinks are also the most calorific, at 439kcal each.

However, if you are shopping at Pret a Manger, there are some healthier options, such as the Gingerbread Latte, which contains half the amount of sugar (22.2g) and is the equivalent of 5.4 teaspoons.