School project showing the amount of sugar in beverages

i.imgur.com

6 points·recoiledsnake··3 comments

This image is being shared a lot lately, don't know its origin, but I want to note, that before people jump to assumptions, please be careful to remember, that sugar is not always, in its natural form, most of the times, it is in complex compound forms, forming with other ingredients.(see the article on coke for 2 days ago that made it to HN frontpage)

also, a just way of reading this, is that if you start counting how many carbons and hydrogen atoms are inside human body, it would sound silly. The same thing goes for sugar here.

What are you talking about? Glucose and fructose is all you'll find. It might be sucrose, but it is all the same by weight and effect once it hits your stomach.

I'm talking about neutralization effect, which is caused by anti-nutrients. sugar compounds, based on its form is digested differently and have different effects.

Like a famous case is fibre in food, disallows the benefits of zinc.

You might want to check this: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/571880/sugar

Additionally, how you can also see this is, the difference in sugar concentration, means that though the amount is large, it is still not the same. sugar is a very broad term, as you may find from the above article.

If this is a genuine school project, that it is good for that general age.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com