How Much Sugar
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1How Much Sugar?
Fill your container. Measure the liquid and use the chart below. Our container
holds _____ ounces of soda pop. One ounce of soda pop has about the same
amount of sugar as one 4-gram sugar cube. So, our container full of soda pop
would have _____ sugar cubes.
Count and stack that number of sugar cubes. Using the chart below, measure
the amount of sugar in one container full of soda pop.
Amount of liquid
Container
Teaspoons of
Cups of sugar
Pounds of sugar
in container
size
sugar in container
if a person
if a person
full of soda pop *
drinks 1 a day
drinks 1 a day
for a year
for a year **
3/4 cup
6 ounces
5 teaspoons
38 cups
17 pounds
1 ½ cup
12 ounces
10 teaspoons
77 cups
34 pounds
2 cups
16 ounces
13 teaspoons
102 cups
45 pounds
3 cups
24 ounces
20 teaspoons
153 ½ cups
67 ½ pounds
6 cups
48 ounces
40 teaspoons
307 cups
135 pounds
8 cups
64 ounces
53 teaspoons
409 cups
180 pounds
Using the chart above, fill in the blanks.
If someone drinks one of our containers full of soda pop every day for a year, he
or she consumes ____ cups or ____ pounds of sugar.
Share your findings with the class.
*
= Based on an average of 40 grams or 10 teaspoons of sugar in a 12-ounce can. Soft drinks vary with most
having between 38 and 49 grams of sugar in a 12-ounce can.
**
= 2 ¼ cups of sugar are in one pound of sugar.
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