Calories in Long Island Iced Tea

Long Island Iced Tea happens to be one of many legendary cocktails that is hugely popular all over the world. In this article, I intend to present you with some Long Island Iced Tea nutritional facts. However, for the benefit of all my fellow teetotaler readers, I think I should first explain what a Long Island Iced Tea actually is, before I move on to the number of calories this wonder drink has.

Ingredients
First and foremost, Long Island Iced Tea is NOT a type of iced tea, or for that matter, any other type of tea. It is in fact, a cocktail and quite a strong one at that! Although there are many variants of this particular alcoholic drink, the most common recipe makes use of the 'famous five', i.e. vodka, gin, rum, tequila and triple sec. Coca Cola and lemon juice are the other ingredients which make up this cocktail. Now that you are aware of what this cocktail is made up of, let us now move on to the next part of this article, i.e. Long Island Iced Tea calories.

Calorie Count
As I mentioned earlier, traditionally, Long Island Iced Tea is made up of vodka, gin, rum, tequila, and triple sec; in addition to Coke and lemon juice. By the way, a popular variant of this recipe (known as Long Beach Iced Tea) makes use of cranberry juice in place of Coke. Anyway, the total number of Long Island Iced Tea calories would be the addition of the individual calorie contents of all its ingredients. Here is a table which shows the individual calorie contents of the 'famous five'.

Ingredient	Calories
Vodka (1 oz)	65
Tequila (1 oz)	65
Gin (1 oz)	66
Rum (1 oz)	66
Triple sec (1 oz)	100

Add up all the calories and what do you get? 362. But wait, that's not all. We still have to add the Coke and the lemon juice, right? Now the amount of Coke that you mix is relative and it differs from person to person. The usual norm is to pour just enough Coke to make the color of the drink change from that of lemonade to that of a regular iced tea. Assuming that amount to be approx. 60 ml, that makes for an additional 25-odd calories. Add a dash of lemon juice and sugar syrup, and you end up with a fully-loaded 400 calorie cocktail!

This was a brief overview on the number of calories that this fantastic cocktail has. I hope you found this article informative. Hence, the next time you're out with your friends drinking Long Island Iced Tea, make sure you burn 'em calories up afterwards, if you know what I mean!