Sugar Stacks Illustrates Your Food In Sugar Cubes [Food]

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Sugar Stacks Illustrates Your Food In Sugar Cubes [Food]

via LH -mac -news -roundup -sponsors on 5/12/09

Some calorie sources are obvious in a Golden Arches, Rich-and-Creamy-Blended-Beverage kind of way. Then there's sugar, which is ever-present in modern grocery staples. Sugar Stacks illustrates this sucrose subterfuge using sugar cube illustrations.

There are actual, helpful numbers next to each entry on this multi-section site, with snacks, breakfast foods, beverages, and other food categories listed with serving sizes, calories, and calories from sugar. But it's the equivalent sugar cubes stacked next to each food that get you thinking and re-thinking what you reach for during your work day or whenever the hunger strikes. Plus, the caption text under some of the foods is often funny and usually spot-on, as with Koala Krisp cereal: "Yeah, it's organic sugar, but it's still as much as your average kid's cereal."

Sugar is, of course, just one element of diet and health, and by no means an entirely unhealthy thing to eat. But knowing how to avoid sugar where you don't expect it is a nice way to get any diet moving back toward health and stability.

For more snack and food surprises, and subsitutes, check out our previous obsession with five healthy snacks that aren't, and a list of 15 foods that burn more calories than they contain. Have your own surprising sugar bombs to report? Drop 'em in the comments.

Sugar Stacks - How Much Sugar Is in That? [via Digital Inspiration]

 

 

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