Have you ever stopped and wondered how much 'stuff' is in a soft drink?
Apart from the "E"'s or E-numbers, there is another additive, and a simple one at that. It's called sugar.
At a retail level from a 'convenience' store, in Australia, a single 600ml bottle of Schweppes Lemonade costs a WHOPPING $3.00, for essentially water and sugar. How much sugar?
The average 600ml contents contains 67.8g of sugar. An average teaspoon of granulated sugar is approx 4 grams. This equates to approx. 17 teaspoons of sugar in every 600ml drink.
Some people can easily have 2 or more drinks per day. At 2 drinks, this equates to at least 34 teaspoons of sugar in their diet.
Enough to make you a diabetic / obese ???
NOTE:
Current Market prices for sugar are approx US 14 cents per pound of sugar,
The Australian Gov. sells water to e.g Coca Cola at $1.40 per 1 million litres.
Therefore 68g of sugar costs $0.0204 AND
600 ml of water costs $0.00000084
So for this exercise a 600ml bottle costs $0.02 and is sold at $3.00.
a mark up of 150 times more than it costs. An extremely profitable business.
At a retail level from a 'convenience' store, in Australia, a single 600ml bottle of Schweppes Lemonade costs a WHOPPING $3.00, for essentially water and sugar. How much sugar?
The average 600ml contents contains 67.8g of sugar. An average teaspoon of granulated sugar is approx 4 grams. This equates to approx. 17 teaspoons of sugar in every 600ml drink.
Some people can easily have 2 or more drinks per day. At 2 drinks, this equates to at least 34 teaspoons of sugar in their diet.
Enough to make you a diabetic / obese ???
NOTE:
Current Market prices for sugar are approx US 14 cents per pound of sugar,
The Australian Gov. sells water to e.g Coca Cola at $1.40 per 1 million litres.
Therefore 68g of sugar costs $0.0204 AND
600 ml of water costs $0.00000084
So for this exercise a 600ml bottle costs $0.02 and is sold at $3.00.
a mark up of 150 times more than it costs. An extremely profitable business.
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