Meryl Horn

So that would be most of your sugar budget right there if you had a can of Coke.

Or you could have like three chocolate croissants.

That's roughly 50 grams of sugar.

Well, because you only put that little nugget of chocolate in there.

Yeah, it's not actually that much, but that still made me feel better.

Yeah, I still have my three croissants.

So to me, I was like, oh, that's not too bad.

So I talked about this with Jim Mann, since he actually helps the World Health Organization come up with that 10% recommendation.

Does that mean I can have, like, a cupcake?

Like, what does that mean?

But you didn't feel guilty about having that slice?

Thanks, Meryl.

So we have 60 citations in this episode.

If you want to look at any of those, read more about sugar science, then check out our transcripts.

The link is in the show notes.

And the last citation is a special treat, a link to an episode of Science Versus that was made 10 years ago that was also on sugar.

This episode was produced by me, Meryl Horn, with help from Rose Rimler, Michelle Dang, and Akedi Foster-Keys.

We're edited by Blythe Sorrell.

Mix and sound design by Bobby Lord.

Our executive producer is Wendy Zuckerman.