How Many Syns In Cadbury's Hot Chocolate? Is It Slimming World Friendly? - Our Syn Guide!

If you love to wind down with a hot chocolate as a sweet treat in the evenings or maybe it's your go-to drink during the colder months, you will need to ensure your synning your hot chocolate on the SW plan to avoid these drinks affecting your weight loss.

Cadbury's hot chocolate has on average 6 syns for their instant full sugar version and 2 syns for their highlights version, making their hot chocolate range high and low in syns, we would recommend opting for highlights on the slimming world plan to save syns.

In our syn guide below, we will take you through why Cadbury's instant hot chocolate is high in syns, some syn values of their range and low syn alternatives for a quick hot chocolate.

Why Is Cadbury's Instant Hot Chocolate So High In Syns?

At 6 syns for a 28g sachet of Cadbury's instant hot chocolate, this drink is very high in syns, using nearly half of your daily syn allowance. This hot chocolate is high in syns due to the sugar content inside, having nearly 17g of sugar in just one serving.

Cadbury's highlights on the other hand are much lower in syns, having 2 syns a sachet meaning you could have up to 7 sachets a day before using your whole daily allowance. These hot chocolate sachets are low in syns because they are sweetened with sweeteners rather than sugar, helping to save syns.

Syn Values Of Cadbury's Instant Hot Chocolate

Cadbury's has a wide range of drinking chocolate available, to help you stay on track with your syns, we've listed them down below.

• Cadbury Drinking Hot Chocolate 250g - 3.5 syns.
• Cadbury Highlights Milk Hot Chocolate 11g - 2 syns.
• Cadbury Instant Hot Chocolate 400g - 6 syns.
• Tassimo Cadbury Hot Chocolate Pods x8 - 6 syns for 200ml.
• Cadbury Highlights Bournville Hot Chocolate 220g - 2 syns.
• Cadbury Wispa Frothy Instant Hot Chocolate 27g - 5 syns.
• Cadbury Fudge Flavour High Lights Hot Chocolate 11g - 2 syns.
• Cadbury Drinking Hot Chocolate 30% Less Sugar 280g - 3 syns.
• Cadbury Oreo Instant Hot Chocolate 260g - 6 syns.
• Cadbury Highlights Caramel Hot Chocolate 220g - 2 syns.
• Cadbury Highlights Hazelnut Hot Chocolate 220g - 2 syns.

Low Syn Alternatives To Cadbury's Hot Chocolate

If you find Cadbury's hot chocolate to be too high in syns and you are not keen on the taste of their lighter highlights options, we've got some great low-syn alternatives to check out below.

• Sainsbury's Low-Calorie Instant Fairtrade Hot Chocolate 250g - 2 syns.
• Hubbard's Foodstore Instant Hot Chocolate Drink 400g - 5.5 syns.
• Twinings Swiss Hot Chocolate 350g - 9 syns.
• Ovaltine Malted Drink, Chocolate, Light 300g - 4 syns.
• Options Single Sachet Salted Caramel 11g - 2 syns.
• Green & Black's Organic Hot Chocolate 300g - 9.5 syns.
• Clipper Fairtrade Instant Hot Chocolate 350g - 5 syns.
• Aero Instant Hot Chocolate Powder Jar 288g - 5 syns.
• Options Single Sachet Mint 11g - 2 syns.
• Options Single Sachet White Chocolate 11g - 2 syns.
• Maltesers Malty Hot Chocolate 350g - 5 syns.
• Galaxy Instant Hot Chocolate Jar 370g - 5 syns.
• Starbucks Signature Salted Caramel Flavour Hot Chocolate Powder Sachets 10x22g - 9.5 syns.

Last Words

To conclude, Cadbury's hot chocolate is high in syns for their instant regular version, having 6 syns a sachet is which is nearly half of your daily syn allowance, to save syns we recommend opting for their highlights version which only has 2 syns a serving or checking out our low syn alternatives above which start as low as 2 syns.