The Sugar Database
Due to popular demand we have now added a new sortable table listing the sugar content of energy drinks (and soft drinks).
The information has taken about 2 months to slowly compile based on nutrition labels and ingredient lists.
And… before you ask – the biggest amount of sugar you could take on board is a 24oz Boo-Koo Energy. You’ll get hit with 80 grams of sugar. The most concentrated energy drinks are Hype and NOS (and of course, the ever present Sky Rocket Caffeinated Syrup).
According to CalorieKing – a cube of sugar is 2.3 grams – and a teaspoon is 2.8 grams (although other sites list a teaspoon of sugar as 4 grams – guess it depends how much you heap the teaspoon).
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Great Site Energy Fiend!
You know there should be a,”how much sugar can you take before your heart stops website”? Now that would be entertaining.
It appears calorieking’s website is totally fubar’d. If you notice, they claim that one level teaspoon is .1 ounces, which is 2.834 grams according to http://www.onlineconversion.com/weight_common.htm
However, calorieking ALSO says that that very same 2.8 grams of sugar has 4.2 grams of carbohydrates. You can’t have 4 grams of something in 2 grams of substance. That’s like saying you could have 2 pounds or kilos of corn in 1 pound or kilo of vegetables.
Furthermore, they claim that .1 ounce of sugar can have either 9 calories and 2.3 grams carbs, or 11 calories and 2.8 grams carbs, or 16 calories and 4.2 grams of carbohydrates! All for the SAME .1 ounce of sugar!
So I would have to say that calorieking is *worthless* as any kind of information tool. It’s clear they got that wrong, and it’s impossible to know what else they’ve gotten wrong. If they use those erroneous calculations to calculate everything else that has sugar in it, their calculations could be WAY off… claiming either double or half the calories that are actually in something. If calorieking uses their base ingredients to build recipe and nutritional information for the rest of their foods, they are certainly way off, and it would be impossible to know which value for .1 ounce of sugar they used… and that could deadly for diabetics.
Teaspoons/tablespoons/quarts/gallons measure *volume*, and grams measure *weight*. But cups can ALSO measure weight. There are 8 ounces in one cup if you’re measuring by volume. But the WEIGHT ounces and the VOLUME ounces aren’t really the same. You don’t say someone weighs 20 gallons.
The confusion comes in when people think “Hey, 16 ounces in a pound, 8 ounces in 1 cup.” But you can’t conflate them that way. One pound of sugar *might not* be two cups.
As it turns out, an ounce of water actually weighs about two ounces. So 1/2 liquid ounce weighs one dry ounce. Which, if you check, means one dry ounce is around 4.2 grams. Calorieking is ALL wrong, and I hope I’ve been able to demonstrate why, and how they fell into that very common logic trap.
It’s very confusing because 8 liquid oz=1 cup, but 16 dry oz=1 lb. But 1 lb of sugar might be more or less than 2 dry cups. Why on earth we haven’t renamed one or the other (dry or liquid, better known as weight vs volume), I have no idea. It’s like saying a liter = 250 grams, for instance. You don’t buy 250 grams of gasoline/petrol. It doesn’t make any sense, so people do their best to extrapolate, and in CalorieKing’s case, are woefully (and possibly fatally, in some special-diet circumstances) incorrect.
I would let your friends know, and urge anyone who relies on CalorieKing to cease until CalorieKing figures out the difference between *weight* and *volume*, and doesn’t give vastly different results for the same measurement of an item.
i swear sugar has some psychedelic propertys if you consume enough of it……..
they should make sugar cubes with caffine in each one,like 30 mg’s or somthing,that would be BOSS.
That is a lot of sugar in Boo-koo energy drink. I could only imagine how fat I would get drinking 40 cubes of sugar a day! yeah! talk about a super high and extreme nap low…