A three-dimensional glass standing on a digital kitchen scale. Sugar pours into the glass and the scale shows the weight in grams.
Sugar, made visible
Enter a value from the label or pick a product. The glass on the scale fills with the actual amount.
Straight from the nutrition table
What is actually in the bottle, can or bowl
Total sugar
about 17–18 sugar cubes
140% of a 50 g daily orientation
Above the daily orientation value
This serving contains 70 grams of sugar, roughly 17.5 sugar cubes, which is 140 percent of a 50 gram daily orientation value.
The idea
A number on a label is easy to skim past. "14 g per 100 ml" means very little until you scale it to the thing you are actually holding — and then watch that amount pile up.
SugarScale does exactly one thing. It takes the value from the nutrition table, multiplies it by your serving size, and turns the result into a quantity you can recognise: grams on a scale, and sugar cubes in a glass.
sugar per 100 ml × amount ÷ 100 = total sugar
70 g of sugar
about 17–18 sugar cubes
Nutrition tables list sugar per 100 ml for drinks and per 100 g for foods.
Multiply by what is really in the bottle, the can or the bowl — not the reference amount.
Grams, cube equivalents and a glass that fills in real time as the numbers change.
Side by side
Typical values for everyday products, sorted by how much sugar ends up in one serving. Tap any card to load it into the glass.
Context
Numbers are only useful with something to compare them to. Here is the orientation SugarScale uses, and what it does and does not cover.
The WHO recommends keeping free sugars below 10 % of total energy intake, and notes additional benefits below 5 %. At a 2000 kcal reference intake that works out at about 50 g and 25 g respectively. SugarScale uses 50 g as its orientation value.
That guidance covers free sugars: sugars added to food and drink, plus those naturally present in honey, syrups and fruit juices. Sugar in whole fruit and the lactose in plain milk are not counted as free sugars.
The sugar cube is a unit of recognition rather than a nutrition unit. It exists here because most people can picture four grams as a cube far more easily than as a number.
Sugar is not something to eliminate, and this is not medical or dietary advice. The point is simply that the amount should not be a surprise. What you do with the number is your call.
SugarScale is an educational tool. It does not provide medical, dietary or nutritional advice. Product values are typical figures for a category, not measurements of a specific branded product — always check the actual label.