The not-so-sweet facts about sugary drinks

Over the last few weeks Room 6 have been learning about healthy food and drink. Some of the class wanted to know why some adults don't want children to have sugary drinks, so we did some research.

The children learnt how to look at a drink label and see how much sugar there is per serving. We found out that we should only have 24 grams of sugar per day, at the most. That's just 6 level teaspoons. The children took turns weighing sugar on the scales to find out how much sugar is in some popular drinks.

Even drinks we thought were healthy, like fruit juice, are actually full of sugar since all the fibre has been removed.

Here is a video we made to show what we discovered.

The bottle of Fanta in the video has 81 grams of sugar in one serving. That's the same amount of sugar as FOUR normal sized Mars Bars!