Panda Express Gold Peak Sweet Tea

Gold Peak Sweet Tea is the bottled sweetened tea at selected Panda Express locations. It is the bottled counterpart to the fountain sweet tea, and it carries the same caution: sweet tea is the heaviest drink category on this menu.

Brewed black tea sweetened in the southern style, smooth and clean tasting in a way that hides how much sugar is dissolved in it. That smoothness is exactly the issue, since a cold sweet tea goes down faster than a carbonated drink while carrying as much sugar or more.

Panda Express publishes its full nutrition panel for national items, and this drink runs regionally, so no verified calorie figure appears here rather than an estimate. The national fountain version, Sweet Tea, publishes 410 calories with 101 g of sugar, the highest of any drink on the menu. Bottled sweet teas sit in comparable territory depending on bottle size, and the label carries the exact figure.

It suits anyone who wants sweet tea and is counting it deliberately. The unsweetened version at effectively zero calories is the same tea without the sugar, at a lower calorie cost than any food swap could deliver. Bottled pricing varies by store; see the Panda Express drinks menu for the full range.