Think Your Drink
and Sugar Cube Activity
THINK YOUR DRINK
• 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.
THINK YOUR DRINK ACTIVITY
Guess the added tsp of sugar in
each drink!
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3
10
Answers
6
0
0
3
10
6
0
How did we get from grams of
sugar to cubes of sugar?
4 grams sugar
=
“1 tsp” or “1 cube”
of sugar
0
3
10
6
White Milk has
12 grams of natural
lactose sugars.
“0” grams of
added sugars
0
0
3
10
6
0
Chocolate Milk has
25 grams of “total” sugar
-12 grams lactose sugars
= 13 grams of added sugars
13 grams / 4 grams = 3 tsp
added
sugar
0
3
10
6
0
Soda has
39 grams sugar /4gm
= 10 cubes or
10 tsp of sugar
THINK YOUR DRINK ACTIVITY
39 grams sugar
/ 4gm
= 10 tsp of sugar
4 grams
sugar
=
1 tsp
or 1 cube
of sugar