Remember that:
- 1 sugar cube is equal to 1 teaspoon or 1/48 th of a cup
- 1 teaspoon of white refined sugar or 1 sugar cube is equal to about 4 g
Imagine that you will eat each day the same breakfast:
1 Cinnamon Roll pastry + 1 coffee
14 sugar cubes+ with 1 sugar cube=15 sugar cubes for 1 breakfast
For 1 year you will have:
15sugar cubes x 365days/year => 5475 sugar cubes/year
This means:
5475 sugar cubes/year x 4g => 21900g sugar /year =>approximate 21.9kg sugar / year
Transformed in lbs we have 21900g sugar/year => 48 lb and 4.49 oz sugar/year
In 10 years you have 485 lbs or 220.45kg! - Only at a frugal breakfast!
Very impressive isn't it? The Sugar is one of the most efficient and profitable business for many of us. The Sugar acts as a drug, making us dependent on it. From the earliest infancy to the old age our taste buds are the subject of the most sweet and inoffensive criminal: the Sugar. It's amazing this food chemistry! Unfortunately we will find it in almost all processed foods being associated with the same amount of salt!
What's for Breakfast Today?
One Pop Tart, one serving. You might as well eat a Twinkie for breakfast - it has about as much sugar.
Pop Tarts, Frosted Cherry - 1 Pastry (1 Serving, 52g)
Sugars, total: 17g
Calories, total: 200
Calories from sugar: 68
Of course, after you open the foil package you'll eat both of them.
Pop Tarts, Frosted Cherry - 2 Pastries
Sugars, total: 34g
Calories, total: 400
Calories from sugar: 136
Even with the icing, that's so much less sugar. These taste better than Pop Tarts too.
Pillsbury Toaster Strudel, Apple - 1 Strudel with Icing
Sugars, total: 9g
Calories, total: 190
Calories from sugar: 36
Half your caloric requirement for the day - and a big piles of sugar.
Cinnabon Cinnamon Roll - 1 pastry
Sugars, total: 55g
Calories, total: 813
Calories from sugar: 220
Waffles have very little sugar, until you cover them in syrup. This might be more than you would use, but 1/4 cup was listed as a "serving" on the syrup bottle.
Eggo Waffles - 2 Waffles, plain
Sugars, total: 2g
Calories, total: 180
Calories from sugar: 8
2 Waffles, with 1/4 cup Syrup
Sugars, total: 35g
Calories, total: 380
Calories from sugar: 140
Of course, we just end up pouring sugar all over these anyway.
Cheerios Cereal - 1 Serving (1 cup/28g)
Sugars, total: 1g
Calories, total: 100
Calories from sugar: 4
A "serving" vs. a real bowlful.
Frosted Flakes Gold Cereal - 1 Serving (3/4 cup/31g)
Sugars, total: 10g
Calories, total: 110
Calories from sugar: 40
1 Bowl (75g)
Sugars, total: 25g
Calories, total: 275
Calories from sugar: 100
Kid's cereals all have about the same amount of sugar "per serving" - but serving size varies, and would usually fit in a very tiny bowl.
Capn Crunch Cereal - 1 Serving (3/4 cup/1 oz)
Sugars, total: 12g
Calories, total: 110
Calories from sugar: 48
1 Bowl (1 1/2 cups/2 oz)
Sugars, total: 24g
Calories, total: 220
Calories from sugar: 96
Here's what's in healthy "adult" cereal.
Special K Cereal - 1 Serving (1 cup/31g)
Sugars, total: 4g
Calories, total: 120
Calories from sugar: 16
That's about twice as much sugar as you would put on unsweetened cereal.
Trix Cereal - 1 Serving (31g)
Sugars, total: 12g
Calories, total: 120
Calories from sugar: 48
Yeah, it's organic sugar, but it's still as much as your average kid's cereal.
Koala Crisp Cereal - 1 Serving (30g)
Sugars, total: 11g
Calories, total: 110
Calories from sugar: 44
As much sugar as a bowl of sweetened cereal, but in a more compact form.
Nutrigrain Cereal Bar, Strawberry -1 Bar (37g)
Sugars, total: 13g
Calories, total: 140
Calories from sugar: 52
Organic, but the same amount of sugar.
Health Valley Cereal Bar, Strawberry - 1 Bar (37g)
Sugars, total: 14g
Calories, total: 130
Calories from sugar: 56
