Every year countries all over the world sell millions upon millions of cans of pop. Since pop was invented, there have been hundreds of additions to the almost limitless variety of pop. According to a study done by the wire, Americans drink on average 44 gallons of pop per year. This number shockingly large, and should jump out to anyone, especially people who are watching their weight. So I decided to collect a convenience sample of pops around the planet to find out how many calories are in a 12 oz. can of pop, and to find out the sugar content and how the two were related. After searching the internet, and my local stores. I collected a sample of 97 pops in order to address my question. After I started collecting, I began researching coloring …show more content…
Meaning that the average American consumes 69,000 calories from pop alone in a single year based upon the statistic that American drink 44 gallons of pop in a year. This means that based upon a 2,000 calorie diet, pop accounts for nearly 10.5% of an Americans caloric intake for the year. The mean sugar content per 12 fluid ounces of pop based upon my sample was 37.67 g. In a year based upon the statistics that Americans drink 44 gallons of pop per year, Americans consume 17,679.78 g of sugar from pop. This is equivalent to 38.977 pounds of sugar, or 1.11 five gallon pales of sugar. (Based on statistic from http://foodstoragemadeeasy.net/2011/03/10/10-cans-and-5-gallon-buckets-how-much-can-they-hold/
Other interesting facts that I found out were that 43.3% of pops contain caramel color. The calorie content has a strong relationship to sugar content, with an r2 value of .9318. The pop that lies on the mean sugar content and calorie content is big red, a common pop created in 1937 that stretches across the United States. The pop that lines up on the mode of the data set is Sunkist and bluesky cola. The pop that is on the median is dewshine, a new mountain dew that is made of all natural cane