A survey conducted by Canadian Community Health Survey, indicates that water is the beverage that is consumed in highest amount by the Canadians.

The survey also found that the daily intake of calories decreases from beverages with the increase in age. Children under the age of 4, receive 20 – 30 % of their calorie intake from beverages. But people aged 71, get only 12% of their calorie intake from beverages.

Milk is the main constituent of the beverage intake for children between 1 – 3. But the milk in take reduces as the children progress into teens. The focus shifts to fruit juices, soft drinks and fruit- flavored drinks in this age. Whereas above fifty years coffee becomes the favorite beverage.

"They usually replace milk and fruit juice by soft drinks and fruit drinks, so they're lacking the nutrients that are available in milk and in fruit juice, like vitamin C, vitamin D and calcium. So that's the biggest concern," said Statistics Canada senior analyst Didier Garriguet.

77 per cent of men and 84 per cent of women aged 19 to 30 consumed an average of 1.36 litres and almost 1.2 litres respectively.