Nutrition and wellbeing

Our commitment to your wellbeing

We’re committed to providing credible healthier choices and have a long-term plan to improve the nutritional balance of our menu.

As one part of this commitment, since 2015 we have supported Public Health England’s (PHE) 20% by 2020 sugar reduction programme in food and the 20% by 2021 sugar reduction programme in milk-based drinks.

While our core coffee range contains no added sugar, we have made some significant changes to the rest of the drinks menu through reformulation, introducing more healthier alternatives and reviewing our portion sizes.

Overall, we have achieved a total sugar reduction of just over 30% across all cup sizes and milk options in our drinks range.

In 2020, we launched a mini cup size with a wider range of great tasting sugar free syrups and we're proud to have achieved a sugar reduction of 20% in our hot chocolate powder since 2015 as well as greatly reducing the calories in our Chai Latte through reformulation and using semi-skimmed milk as the default option. In the medium size, this is just over a 100kcal reduction to 215kcal per serving, well below PHE’s calorie cap guidance of 300kcal per single serve drink.

Nutrition & allergens advice

As we use shared equipment, we cannot guarantee that our unpackaged food items or hand-crafted drinks are suitable for people with severe allergies. Our menu offers full nutritional information on our core range of Costa products.

As we continually make adjustments to improve our food and drinks, ingredients may have changed since your last purchase. Check our full allergen information guides below on all of the items we offer. Don't forget, you can also ask a Costa Coffee team member on your next visit to a store.

Working together, to make healthier choices

As a member of the Out of Home Food and Drink Alliance made up of leading High Street brands we have actively engaged with both Department of Health and Public Health England in support of their sugar, salt and calorie reduction programmes as well as initiatives to support clear customer information. Read the Out of Home Food and Drink Alliance’s Code of Practice, here.

We're is also a member of the British Nutrition Foundation and work with organisations such as Action on Sugar and Action on Salt to ensure that the decisions we make on nutrition and wellbeing reflect best practice.