How many calories are in Sprite Zero?

One 12 fl oz can of Sprite Zero Sugar carries 0 calories, and per 100 g the drink is 0 calories as well. There is nothing on the panel to count: 0 g of carbohydrate, 0 g of fat, 0 g of protein. The one number that does move is sodium, 39 mg in that can.

On this page

• Sprite Zero quick facts
• US servings, from a mini can to a 20-ounce bottle
• Mini can, 12-ounce can, bottle and the diet rivals
• Sodium is the only row that moves
• How does Sprite Zero compare?
• Most popular sprite zero brands
• Sprite Zero FAQs

Sprite Zero quick facts

The record behind this page is USDA Branded 2597001, "Sprite Zero Sugar fridge pack cans, 7.5 fl oz, 10 pack, lemon lime", filed by Coca-Cola USA Operations under GTIN 0049000093506. That is the only entry in FoodData Central for the brand itself, and it is a label transcription rather than a lab analysis. The Foundation, SR Legacy and FNDDS data sets carry no row for this drink at all, so there is nothing else to weigh it against.

USDA files the can by weight, not by fluid ounces, and 12 fl oz of soda weighs about 355 g. The column below is that can scaled from the 100 g figures, which is our own arithmetic from the USDA per-100 g row and not a USDA household serving.

% Daily Value is based on a 2,000-calorie diet.

Rows you would normally expect are missing on purpose. The Branded record carries only calories, protein, carbohydrate, fat and sodium, so saturated fat, dietary fiber and total or added sugars are not published for this food and we do not invent them. In practice the carbohydrate line answers the sugar question anyway: 0 g of carbohydrate leaves no sugar to report. Cholesterol and potassium are absent from the record too. Caffeine and the ingredient list sit outside the nutrient panel USDA supplies here, so this page puts no number on either.

US servings, from a mini can to a 20-ounce bottle

Only one line in that table is a USDA serving: the 7.5 fl oz mini can, which is the size the multipack label declares. The cup, the 12 fl oz can, the 20 fl oz bottle and the ounce are our own arithmetic from the USDA 100 g figure, scaled by weight. Normally that scaling is where calorie counts go wrong. Here it cannot, because anything multiplied by zero is still zero.

That is the useful trick with this drink. You do not need to know whether you poured 8 ounces or 16, whether the glass was half ice, or whether the fountain machine ran long. Log the can, log the bottle, log the refill, log all three: the calorie total does not move.

Mini can, 12-ounce can, bottle and the diet rivals

Every size of Sprite Zero comes off the same USDA row, because USDA holds only the 7.5 fl oz multipack for this brand. The mini can, the standard can and the 20 oz bottle in the table are that row scaled by weight, and the sodium column is where the packaging actually shows up.

The diet rivals behave the same way on calories and differently on salt. Diet 7UP matches Sprite Zero almost exactly at 11 mg of sodium per 100 g. The cranberry-flavored Sierra Mist runs 23 mg per 100 g, roughly double, and the Harris Teeter store brand sits between them at 14 mg. Two other store labels in the same USDA search, Meijer and Super Chill, file their diet lemon-lime soda at 0 mg per 100 g: either a genuinely salt-free formula or a panel rounded down. Either way the calorie line is identical.

Sodium is the only row that moves

Sodium is the single number on this drink worth watching, and it is small. One 12 fl oz can is 39 mg, or 2% of the FDA Daily Value of 2,300 mg. A full six-pack in one day is 234 mg, about 10% of the DV, which is our own arithmetic from the same figure. A 2-liter bottle, at 2,000 g, comes to 220 mg, also close to 10%.

For scale, that 39 mg is less sodium than sits in a slice of white bread, and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans put the ceiling at 2,300 mg a day for adults. If you are actively managing blood pressure and counting milligrams, the soda is a rounding error next to the sandwich it goes with. If you are choosing between diet lemon-limes on sodium alone, Sprite Zero and Diet 7UP tie at 11 mg per 100 g, under every brand here except the Meijer and Super Chill labels that file a rounded 0 mg.

Here is the detail nobody prints. Glass size barely changes the number at the low end: a cup over ice comes to 26 mg, a 7.5 fl oz mini can 25 mg. One milligram apart. The step up to a 20 oz bottle, 65 mg, is the first jump you could even notice, and it is still 3% of the DV.

The calorie swap is the bigger story than any of this. CDC's Rethink Your Drink guidance is built on exactly this move: the drink you replace is where the calories were, and the replacement here is a flat zero.

How does Sprite Zero compare?

Our take: on calories these four are indistinguishable, so pick on taste and price and stop reading nutrition panels for this shelf. The only measurable separation is sodium per 100 g, where Sprite Zero and Diet 7UP tie at the bottom with 11 mg and the cranberry Sierra Mist sits highest at 23 mg. If you drink one can a day, that difference is 39 mg against 82 mg for the same 12 fl oz volume, which is 2% of the Daily Value against 4%. Worth knowing, not worth switching brands over.

Most popular sprite zero brands in the United States

Ranked by how widely each product appears among foods sold in the United States, from the BodyPal food database of over 3.3 million products. Calories are the figures printed on each Nutrition Facts label, checked against USDA FoodData Central.

Brand popularity: BodyPal food database. Nutrition: manufacturer labels / USDA FoodData Central.

Sprite Zero FAQs

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