Everyone knows we eat too much sugar.
But how do you actually become aware of the amount of sugar you swallow every day?
With "Sucrez Vos Fraises" launched in 2018, 2 students, Arthur Grolleau and Léa Soulard, found the trick!
Just take a picture of products that we all know (and eat) with their equivalent in sugar cubes next to them.
Then, all you have to do is post it all on Instagram. And the least we can say is that it speaks for itself!
Super effective in raising awareness of the presence of sugar in everyday food products! Watch:
In a jar of applesauce from the Andros brand, there is the equivalent of 30 sugar cubes. Fortunately, the majority comes from the natural sugar in apples. But there is still 12% added sugar.
In a 120 g pack consisting of 19 trays, there are 70.8 g of sugar. More than half of the product! That is exactly 59%. In other words, it is the equivalent of 14 sugar cubes. Each cookie contains 3.9g of sugar, which is just under a square of sugar.
Do you know these cookies? If so, you know it's hard to eat just one! It is for this reason that the two students chose to analyze the sugar content of 4 Prince biscuits. For 4 cookies, there are 33.6 g of sugar, which is 6.5 sugar cubes. In comparison, note that the WHO recommends a sugar intake of 25 g per day.
A 500 g jar of Carte d'Or vanilla ice cream contains the equivalent of 26 sugar cubes (130 g)!
In a package of Lu's Little Schoolboy in dark chocolate, there are 12 cookies. On 150 g of products, there are 54 g of sugar or the equivalent of 11 sugar cubes. A biscuit therefore almost corresponds to a piece of sugar.
In this 82 g ice cream, there are 24 g of sugar, or 5 sugar cubes. By eating one of these ice creams, you absorb the maximum amount of sugar recommended per day.
A Snickers bar weighs 50 g and contains 25 g of sugar (more or less depending on the variant), i.e. 5 sugar cubes.
In a pack of 135 g, there are 9 tartlets which contain 55 g of sugar. This represents 11 sugar cubes. A tartlet therefore contains a little more than the equivalent of a sugar cube.
If we eat 3 BN (57 g), we absorb 18 g of sugar, the equivalent of 3.5 sugars. Sugar therefore represents more than 1/3 of the composition of the cake:32% exactly.
A 340g tub of ketchup is 66% tomatoes and everything else is glucose. As a result, there are 66.3 g of sugar in this bottle or the equivalent of 13 sugar cubes.
In this large 260g packet of M&M's Crispy candies, there is the equivalent of 41 sugar cubes (206g of sugar)!!!!
A KitKat bar weighs 42g. In each KitKat bar, there are 19.2 g of sugar or 4 sugar cubes. Sugar therefore represents 42% of the product.
By eating a bar of 276 g, we eat the equivalent of 132 g of sugar, or about 26 sugar cubes. Sugar represents 48% of all ingredients.
A 150 g package of DéliChoc represents the equivalent of 14 sugar cubes (70.6 g).
A tub of cookie-flavoured ice cream weighs 425g, including 106.25g of sugar. In other words:21 sugar cubes. A small part of the sugar found in the ice cream comes from the milk, but the rest has been added back with the other ingredients.
There are 7 g of sugar in 4 Bjorg cookies, which is 1.5 sugar cubes. Compared to the other cookies on the list, these seem almost light! But let's not forget that this still represents 1/4 of the sugar intake recommended by the WHO.
