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OCTOBER 29, 2015 | The Jewish Home
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THE BALTIMORE JEWISH HOME
MARCH 4, 2021
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TJH Sugar High Trivia 1. How many calories are there in one teaspoon of sugar? a. 15 b. 30 c. 45 d. 120 2. In 1843, Moravian Jakub Kryštof Rad, director of a sugar company, was granted a patent to do what? a. Use sugar in candy b. Make sugar cubes c. Turn sugar into a powder-like substance d. Make ices out of sugar 3. Which country consumes the most sugar in the world, per capita? a. U.S.A. b. Germany c. Netherlands d. Ireland
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4. There are three main categories of sugar. Which one of the following is not one of those three? a. Polyos b. Disaccharides c. Monosaccharides d. Miluvshalachmanows
5. Two hundred years ago, the average American ate only 2 pounds of sugar a year. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, how much sugar does the average American currently eat per year? a. 4 pounds b. 13 pounds c. 21 pounds d. 152 pounds 6. To avoid listing “sugar” as the first ingredient, food manufacturers may use a different name (such as dextrose, galactose, glucose, etc.). How many different names are there for sugar? a. 12 b. 32 c. 56 d. 1,354 7. In 1985, Coca Cola switched over to corn syrup rather than cane sugar, to sweeten their classic cola. If you want to see what Coca Cola with sugar tastes like today, what do you have to do? a. Go to the Coca Cola museum in Atlanta where they give out small cans of Coke sweetened with sugar b. Go to South America where they still use sugar to sweeten Coke
Answers: 1. A 2. B 3. A 4. D 5. D 6. C 7. D Wisdom Key: 6-7 correct: ARRRRRGGHHHHHHHh!!!! You have got to slow down on the sugar. Do you really need to spray that sugar spray in your mouth? Isn’t it enough that you have a ring pop on every finger? 3-5 correct: You are an average American… How are those 152 pounds of sugar feeling? 0-2 correct: “Uh, well, I just must tell you. Aunt Sally and I have been off of sugar for 13 years now and we, uh, eh, feel so great. You really have to try it. I mean we don’t feel deprived at all. We eat blackened salmon for breakfast, grilled salmon for lunch, and seared salmon for dinner. On our anniversary we celebrate with broccoli ice cream.” Sounds like fun – but at least they have all their teeth!
c. Try to find an old can in your grandmother’s pantry d. Buy a kosher for Pesach Coke bottle (marked with the yellow caps), which use sugar instead of corn syrup which is not kosher for Pesach
