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How many sugars do you take?

Posted May 20, 2009

Would you eat nine and a half sugar cubes? The scary thing is you probably have already. Nine and a half cubes is the actual amount of sugar in a normal can of Coca Cola. Ten sugar lumps to be exact - precisely 39g and a total of 240 calories. Swide investigates...

Thanks to SugarStacks.com, a project started in May 2009, we can now measure the amount of sugar in desserts, sweets and smoothies according to sugar cubes. The concept is a more visual way to immediately grasp how much sugar and inevitably how many calories, we’re actually eating. For example there are fourteen sugar cubes in a king size chocolate bar, ten in a frozen yogurt drink and seven in a glass of chocolate milk.

With summer approaching, and the obvious mania for low fat snacks, healthy smoothies and fruits, SugarStacks.com is the one to reveal the terrible truth: reduced fat doesn't equal reduced sugar or reduced calories. On the contrary each "reduced fat version" of snacks and beverages contains almost the same amount of sugar cubes.

Devoted to Fruit light smoothies? Take into consideration a "Jambo Juice Mango Mantra" which contains eight cubes of sugar. As SugarStacks.com's blog wisely states, "just because a product looks like it has fruit inside, or it is derived from a fruit, doesn't mean you should put it in your body". Wise words indeed. If you take a look in SugarStack.com's fruit section you'll discover the humble and very healthy looking navel orange actually contains an astonishing five sugar cubes.

Although helpful in explaining the different type of sugars, SugarStacks helps us to face facts. Sugar is everywhere and there's no escape - but you can rest assured that chocolate ice-cream this summer may be no worse than eating a couple of oranges. This we consider the real breakthrough.

If it's a true sugar-free but sweet option you're after - take a look at the video below courtesy of band, The Archies.


Source: www.sugarstacks.com

Gabriele Valerio

 

TAGS: sugarstacks.com the archies sugar food online magazine fashion magazine luxury magazine calories diet fruit sugar-free

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