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Food, Science, HealthJuly 9, 2009 1:57 pm

A label can tell you there are 39 grams of sugar in your soda, but what does that much sugar look like?
They’ve used regular sugar cubes (4 grams of sugar each) to show how the sugars in your favorite foods literally stack up, gram for gram.
Compare foods, find out where sugar is hiding, and see how much of the sweet stuff you’re really eating.

Beverages

  Coca Cola 

12 oz (355 ml) Can
Sugars, total: 39g
Calories, total: 140
Calories from sugar: 140

20 oz (590 ml) Bottle
Sugars, total: 65g
Calories, total: 240
Calories from sugar: 240

1 Liter (34 oz) Bottle
Sugars, total: 108g
Calories, total: 400
Calories from sugar: 400

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Puzzle, Food, Thought outDecember 11, 2008 11:43 am

Cups of coffee which you wouldn’t dare to drink
[all pics are clickable for a larger size]

        
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Advertisments, Food, Thought outOctober 30, 2008 1:52 pm

An Deutch web-site Pundo3000.com made a research of 100 different products to compare the apperance printed on the wrap with real apperance of what’s inside. "All products were bought in local stores, were taken pictures of wraps and then of the final dishes. Later all products were eaten", reseachers claim. The project’s aim was not discrimination of any brands or products, but the comparison of wrapper advertise with actual product inside it.

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