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what if we labeled juice, soda, tea etc with % sugars by volume like how we do with ABV? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I picked up 24 oz "Green Tea" from the convenience store earlier. I forgot to check how sweet it was, 60g added sugars in the 706.8ml beverage. So this is like 8.5% sugar (g/ml). Obviously that's napkin math but this is showerthoughts, not theydidthemath

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It won't happen because the sugar industry lobbies very actively against this sort of labeling. They specifically don't want you to be able to do those sorts of calculations when buying products, which is why they use a completely arbitrary measurement system for the nutrition label in the first place; most people can't visualize what 60g of sugar even looks like without a scale, but they can definitely visualize ~8% of a can's volume.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean there’s the x g of sugar/100 g of product which is exactly the same as a weight percentage so if people aren’t braindead it’s easy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a regional thing I think. I've never seen it in the US. But it seems like they are hell bent on obfuscating information wherever possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think it's standard in the EU

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's a good idea tho