SUGAR IN DRINKS

how many sugar cubes hide in a glass — from water to cola, by the USDA reference

Built as a memo rather than a table: the thing worth hanging it up for reads across the room, with the full reference in smaller type below it.

Three sizes in one archive — from a sheet on the fridge to a poster on the wall.

Formats: A4 · A3 · A2
What you get: Print-ready PDFs, one per size, with every letterform converted to outlines — nothing to install, nothing to shift.
Subject: drinks · kids · comparison · nursery

Sugar content — USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy, cross-checked 2026-08-12; the glass is 250 ml, a cube here is 4 g of sugar. The chart shows the numbers and does not tell anyone what to drink.

JUICE AND COLA — NEARLY EVEN

A glass of unsweetened apple juice holds 25 g of sugar, a glass of cola — 27: the difference is less than one cube. Only the origin differs — in the juice all of it is fruit sugar, in the cola it is added.

Chocolate milk is milk plus: 13 g of lactose in a glass of milk against 25 g in the chocolate one. 12 g thrown in — exactly three cubes.

On the sheet

Sugar content — USDA FoodData Central, SR Legacy, cross-checked 2026-08-12; the glass is 250 ml, a cube here is 4 g of sugar. The chart shows the numbers and does not tell anyone what to drink.
Colour carries meaning, but meaning never rests on colour alone — the sheet reads in black and white.
Nothing about how it was made: the sheet carries only what the reader needs.

Printing

Three sizes in the archive: A4 — 210×297 mm, A3 — 297×420 mm, A2 — 420×594 mm.
All text is converted to outlines. No fonts to install, and nothing shifts on another machine.
White background and sparing fills — it prints on a home printer without draining the cartridge.
Margins of at least 10 mm: a home printer cannot print to the edge.
No stroke thinner than 0.3 mm, so nothing disappears in print.

Why the numbers can be trusted. Every countable number here is computed from data rather than typed in, and the sheet must pass 7 independent checks before it is allowed to build — how many items there are, the order they come in, and the claim in the highlighted box itself. If one fails, there is no file.

SUGAR IN DRINKS

JUICE AND COLA — NEARLY EVEN

On the sheet

Printing

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