Think Your DrinkThink Your Drinkand and Sugar Cube ActivitySugar Cube Activity

• To engage kids in a fun and creative way to “THINK ABOUT THEIR DRINK!”

•Create visuals to leave lasting impressions

• Make nutrition messages come alive

• To promote milk and dairy foods that are naturally nutrient rich!

• Teach children to make healthy choices early on so they will carry those habits with them throughout their lives.

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Guess the Guess the addedadded tsp of sugar in tsp of sugar in each drink!each drink!

3 10 6 00

Answers

3 10 6 00

How did we get from How did we get from gramsgrams of of sugar to sugar to cubescubes of sugar? of sugar?

4 grams sugar

=

“1 tsp” or “1 cube”

of sugar

3 10 6 00

White MilkWhite Milk has 12 grams of natural

lactose sugars.

“0” grams of added sugars

3 10 6 00

Chocolate Milk has

25 grams of “total” sugar -12 grams lactose sugars= 13 grams of addedadded sugars

13 grams / 4 grams = 3 tsp added

sugar

3 10 6 00

Soda has39 grams sugar /4gm = 10 cubes or 10 tsp of sugar

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39 grams sugar

/ 4gm= 10 tsp of sugar

4 grams sugar

= 1 tsp

or 1 cube of sugar