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American here. I generally stick to a vegan/vegetarian diet to try and work on my "numbers" from our company healthcare bio-screening. My woke moment was when I was told exactly how much sugar is in a teaspoon. 4 grams.

After that day I started seeing just how criminally insane some food products were and just how far most companies go to make sure you dont accidentally find out how much refined sugar you eat. tricks like changing portion sizes displayed to per-serving instead of per-package, or hiding behind vegetables and smoothie jargon for drinks to pass off a third cup of sugar as somehow healthy.

4 grams is a teaspoon. 3 teaspoons is a tablespoon. 4 tablespoons is a quarter cup.

EDIT: 3 teaspoons, is a tablespoon apparently.

This is why the EU mandates all products to have their nutrients listed the same way, it's always amount/100g of product.

They can add the per-portion or per-whatever, but the per/100g MUST be there.

At my dentist growing up, they used to have little plastic bags stapled to the wall labelled with the product that that amount of sugar came from. A can of Coke has a pretty big bag of sugar in it, as does a glass of orange juice. It's amazing seeing it visualised like that.

these are US measures. Metric 5ml is a teaspoon, 20ml a tablespoon. In case anyone else was confused like me.

I'm assuming you're Australian. In the rest of the world, a tablespoon is 15ml.

Really? Well TIL, wonder why australia is different, always assumed that was a metric standard.

Edit: https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/15002/why-is-a-t... for more than you ever wanted to know about tablespoons.

Airheads are vegan, in fact I would say you're likely to eat more sugar on a vegan diet.

It would be interesting to plot the amount of sugar added to various food staples over the years.

a standard 12 oz can of soda is literally a shot glass of sugar.

Looking at the sugar content of things and then measuring it out that mass of sugar is shocking.

So many thing are like that. Normal hard cider like angry orchard is like syrup. How do people drink it?

3 teaspoons is a tablespoon.

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