10 Worst Drinks for Your Gut Health

If you're craving a cold, sweet drink, opt for a 100% fruit juice that doesn't contain any added sugar.

1. Sweet tea

Speaking of sugar, juice with extra sugar is another drink you might want to limit if you're worried about your gut health.

2. Sugary juice

If you're grabbing those energy drinks to relieve your daily fatigue, you may want to think again.

3. Energy drinks

Caffeinated drinks, like coffee, are stimulants that improve gut motility. This means that these drinks can help things move through your digestive system faster.

4. Coffee

When you drink a lot of refined sugars, like those in soda, your bowels may not be able to absorb the sugar as well. This can make you feel sick.

4. Regular soda

There is some study that shows that drinking carbonated drinks can make your stomach hurt.

5. Carbonated beverages

Having one too many beers, cocktails, or glasses of wine on a daily basis "can change the microbiota, causing an imbalance of the bacteria in the gut with an overgrowth of the bad, unhealthy bacteria.

6. Alcohol

Green and black teas, which both have caffeine, can make the stomach more acidic, which can cause heartburn in some people.

7. Some caffeinated teas

Green and black teas, which both have caffeine, can make the stomach more acidic, which can cause heartburn in some people.

8. Some caffeinated teas

Some people get acid reflux when they drink drinks with chocolate in them. This happens when the acid in your stomach goes backwards, causing heartburn.

9. Chocolate drinks

When you're trying to cut back on calories, it's common to drink drinks with fake sweeteners like aspartame and sucralose that have no calories.

10. Artificially sweetened beverages

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