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Knowing it has sugar is one thing. Seeing the volume of sugar relative to the other ingredients is still a shock
I guess I've seen so many of these things that I've stopped being surprised. This one was really popular for a long time.
That one can't be real. There's more sugar than could physically fit in the coke can. Like no liquid, just sugar, there's more than 12oz of sugar.
There’s 39 grams of sugar in a a coke can. Sugar is water soluble and 90% of the can is water that can absorb the 10% of sugar.
Hmmm, look at the labels. They each say something something "100".
Not the right language, but maybe something like per 100? Like per 100 grams of water? Or.. something about volume?
IDK, it would be a weird way to do it. But something like that might explain why so much sugar, seemingly more than can fit in the can.
Sugar is heavy, there's no way 39 grams is the same size as the can
Edit: gandalf seems to have the right idea here! https://sh.itjust.works/comment/24686999
Edit2: wait, a can has 300+ grams of fluid in it... So the sugar would be 1/3 of what the whole can would be. This actually makes the picture more confusing 🤔
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Behold, 39 grams of sugar. About one shot glass worth.
Here's that glass next to a can. I don't have any soda pop in the house.
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Doing the real science! Thanks!!
whoa, the Quoakka. I didn't fact check your comment but upvoted anyway. Hopefully you aren't wrong.
I hope I'm not wrong as well! I did my best research (I googled) and looked at the nutritional labels (100% 39g of sugar).
Yeah, even considering the angle, that seems off. I just did a search and plucked one of the first to come up; I wonder if that version has been messed with.
16 to 20 teaspoons of sugar or the equivalent, in a 16 oz pop I've read. Can you imagine putting 10 teaspoons of sugar in a cup of coffee?
Yes
The sugar is liquidated dude, what are you talking about? 😳
there isn't more than a can full of sugar in a can of soda, that would be syrup.
There is a video about it on YouTube, one can of coke has 8 big full spoons of sugar in it
i'm not sure what you want me to say, it's basic physics that if you put a larger volume of sugar into a smaller volume of water, that becomes syrup. And soda in the can is very clearly not syrup.
Like, for solid food, 50% sugar is what's typically in sweets, that means 50g sugar in 100g food. 10% sugar (that means 10g sugar in 100g liquid) is what's in sweet drinks like soda.
The WHO recommends restricting your sugar intake to a maximum of 10% of your calories intake. So for solid food that would be 10g sugar per 100g food, assuming the rest of the food is calorie-rich. For liquids it would be virtually 0g sugar per 100g liquid as liquids contain essentially no other calorie source.