Have you ever heard the story that there are 8 teaspoons of sugar in a can of pop? I heard this again last week and finally, with a pop and the internet in front of me looked it up.

Here is a table of the number of calories in different amounts of white sugar

Sugar (Serving size)	Calories
Table Sugar, 1 level teaspoon (4g)	15
Table Sugar, 1 heaped teaspoon (6g)	25
Table Sugar, 1 cup	770
Table Sugar, average (1 cube)	25
Icing Sugar, 1 average tablespoon (12g)	48

And the can of Coca Cola in front of me? It has 160 calories so that is 7 heaped teaspoons of sugar. It seems crazy becuase I could not imagine eating 7 teaspoons of sugar out of a bowl but drinking a can of pop is never difficult for me.