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Grab your favorite soft drink. Gatorade, Pepsi juice whatever maybe. Look at the nutritional label on the back and see how many grams of sugar it contains per serving. Be very careful on the per serving part.

Some bottles may contain one, two or more servings per container.
For example if the label reads 10g of sugar per serving it is has two servings then the entire bottle contains 20g of sugar (g=grams). Simple trick food companies like to use to make you trust they are adding less sugar. Now if your favorite drink is just one serving then the total would be just 10g of sugar.

Next with mom permission get the sugar bowl and for every 4 g of sugar on the label add one teaspoon.  ( 4g=1 tsp of sugar.) In out 10 g example that would make ….How many teaspoons?

CORRECT : 2 ½ teaspoons of sugar. One bottle of Gatorade I know has 10 teaspoons put the sugar in a plastic bag and just  think about that sugar you are drinking the next time you grab your favorite beverage.

See you again tomorrow