We all grab one of these types of drinks every day, but do you know how much it contains? Watch the video and find out. It might just get you to grab a bottled water instead!

 

We all grab one of these types of drinks every day, but do you know how much it contains?

 

We all do?

That's a lot of sugar!

seems like that much sugar would result in a jello type product.....

I usually get the diet coke (or whatever soft drink...if I don't have a choice, since I prefer iced tea or coffee), so try to avoid all that sugar.  I get way too much in my diet already. 

 

 

 

Yikes. I like the soundtrack. :)

 

I'm actually more curious about juice, since I don't drink pop. But I've mostly stopped drinking juice, too, and I water it down when I do (to avoid all the sugar). I still put honey in my coffee, though! Hopefully that's not so bad.

Natininja - what kind of juice?  I can look it up.

 

The music is by Jahzzar and a link is in the description of the video.

Ok I looked it up. 8 oz. serving has 24g; the almighty Internet (some q&a site) says a gram of table sugar is about 4.2 tsp. So that's a little less than 6 tsp in 8 oz.

 

Bump the oz. up to 12 and you're at 8.5 tsp, slightly less than Coke!

 

Tropicana OJ (I figure that's a typical juice people drink daily) has 22g per 8 oz., so it's in the same ballpark. About 8 tsp.

 

Yep, what I've heard is true: drinking juice is about as bad as drinking Coke when it comes to sugar content.

Ya know you are to only have 10 tsp per day. This is from the USDA.  Most folks have about 40 tsp per day.

 

I did this video for awareness.  I am working on another one that is more startling.

I'm fortunate to not have much of a sweet tooth, and the only totally predictable sugar I have each day is that tsp of honey (probably less, actually) in my coffee. Though I might totally pig out on a dessert on occasion. On days where I go over the 10g, I probably go way over -- like double or triple!

 

I definitely eat too much meat, though.

10g?  The USDA has no official Recommended Daily Allowance, but has said that 24g for women and 36g for men is a healthy amount.  And these amounts are for "added sugars".  Natural sugars from fruit and such don't count towards this limit.  Also, nutrition facts should have to differentiate between glucose and fructose since the latter has been shown to be much worse for you.

 

my problem would be how much is in beer. anyone know??

my problem would be how much is in beer. anyone know??

 

Typically none, or none that has any effect. Beer is pretty simple - it's just a starch, water, yeast, and hops. The yeast turns the starch into alcohol. Unless you're drinking a cheap beer that adds sugar (even then it is typically converted to alcohol by the yeast) there isn't any added sugar. It's the carbs and the calories you have to watch for. A night of drinking 3, 4, or 5 strong beers could be the equivalent of downing a 12 pack of coke in terms of calories.

mrnyc:  I picked Miller as a link : http://www.sparkpeople.com/calories-in.asp?food=miller+genuine+draft

 

13g for Genuine Draft.

 

You can query it as supplemental nutrition.

Ok I looked it up. 8 oz. serving has 24g; the almighty Internet (some q&a site) says a gram of table sugar is about 4.2 tsp.

 

You've got that backwards, one tsp. is approx 4 grams.

I got an email as soon as my Coke video went up asking if I could do two more videos along the same lines. I did not want to create a new thread, so added it to this one.

 

Enjoy the first one!

 

 

There is quite a bit of naturally occurring sugar in a tomato, so it makes sense ketchup would have a high sugar content, but it's not like Heinz is adding in that much raw sugar to their ketchup. In fact, Heinz actually adds in high fructose corn syrup as a sweetener. Some ketchups, like Hunts, add in actual sugar, which is probably more healthy.

 

It would be interesting to see how much sugar is being added in that isn't coming from the tomatoes.

I've been trying to cut as much processed sugar from my diet as possible recently.  Pop, candy, cookies, etc. are obvious culprits, but as the above ketchup video points out, sugar is added into all kinds of different foods, many of which we'd never expect.

 

There are a lot of health issues that we know of (and many others that haven't been proven yet) that are either directly caused or exacerbated by the consumption of excessive amounts of processed sugar.