• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        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.

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          1 month ago

          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?

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                1 month ago

                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.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 month ago

      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.