Harold Caravan + Measuring The Sugar In Drinks

Harold Caravan + Measuring The Sugar In Drinks 22 September 2017

This morning some of the year seven and eights attended the harold caravan to learn some new exciting things. One of the activities that we were told we were going to was measuring the amount of sugar in different types of drinks.

Nicole who ran everything got a variety of different drinks for us to measure. There were drinks like Coca Cola, Rock Star, Mother, Wave, Powerade, E2, Flavoured Water, Red Bull, Fresh Up and a few other drinks. We were to look at the label at the back of the drinks and read and see how many teaspoons of sugar were in the drinks. We estimated how much sugar by using how time tables. One teaspoon would equal to a number in the four times table. So, for example if a drink had 51mg in it we would have to look at the four times table and see which one is the closest to that number. So for 51mg there are 13 teaspoons of sugar in there because 4 x 13 = 52 and that is the closest result to the number.

Before we measured everything we had to make an assumption and guess what drink would have the most sugar and what drink would have the least. My assumption was the flavoured water having the least and the coca cola having the most. We got into groups and measured the drinks. My group measured the drinks “Rock Star” and “Mother”. We were surprised and overwhelmed with the result because of how much sugar was actually put into drinks. The rock star had 69mg with 17 teaspoons and the mother had 51mg with 13 teaspoons.

All of the drinks had a lot of sugar in them but the rock star had the most and the flavoured water had the least. I was shocked at the results because I thought coca cola would be one of the ones with the most sugar in it but it was one of the ones with the least. I was also more surprised with the amount of sugar people put in drinks.

At the end of the activity it was time to leave and go back to class to have morning tea. That was our last session of harold and we even got to say hi and bye to harold. I really enjoyed attending the harold sessions and I hope to maybe even see him in the future more often.