Grams to Teaspoons & why you need to understand this (yes YOU... pawgs can wait)

[notPsychosiz]

Teaspoons are not used as a measurement on nutritional facts because people understand how much a teaspoon of something is. Most ppl don't know wtf a gram is... so they ignore it when they see it.

Lets take a can of Coca-Cola. (Dont tune out just cause you don't drink Coke or you will miss the point)

One can has 39 grams of sugar.
Is that a little? A lot?
Well, lets find out.

One teaspoon of granulated white sugar is close to four grams.

Memorize that.

4g = 1tsp


So in the case of this single can of cola... 39 divided by 4 = 9.75
Yes. In a single can of coca cola there are almost 10 teaspoons of sugar.

Thats this much.

So now, when you are shopping and see items containing grams of sugar... you will have some idea of how much that actually is.

Its usually alot. Often times 'juice' is just as high in sugar as soda. So pay attention.

 

[Larry Lobster]

Soda is trash.
Water and natural juices

 

[Luck]

Soda is trash.
Water and natural juices

And liquor on the week ends

 

[YaBoy]

Teaspoons are not used as a measurement on nutritional facts because people understand how much a teaspoon of something is.

You sure this isn't just because we use English units in America? Like how you pay for some food by the pound, not by the kilogram

 

[notPsychosiz]

You sure this isn't just because we use English units in America? Like how you pay for some food by the pound, not by the kilogram

That is the reason it is initially in place, yes. But the food companies have lobbies that spend millions to prevent the transition. Because it has been sugested several times and each time it was voted against or did not make it to vote at the behest of food companies like Oceanspray (that dump tons of sugar onto their dried fruits but people think they are healthy because they are fruit... Myself included). I used to think dried fruit and fruit juices had a minimal amount of sugars, but then I started to learn more about how and why it is the way it is.

I don't mean to single out OceanSpray... but thats the actual company I found out about all this from.
They have full lobbiests hassling the FDA. And spent several million to make sure people do not understand how much sugar they are consuming.

http://www.bdcwire.com/ocean-spray-to-fda-cranberry-juice-tastes-terrible-without-sugar/
http://www.mediapost.com/publicatio...n-sprays-big-guys-join-sugar-policy-fray.html
http://www.livestrong.com/article/277605-craisins-nutrition-information/