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what if we labeled juice, soda, tea etc with % sugars by volume like how we do with ABV? (kbin.social)
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I picked up 24 oz "Green Tea" from the convenience store earlier. I forgot to check how sweet it was, 60g added sugars in the 706.8ml beverage. So this is like 8.5% sugar (g/ml). Obviously that's napkin math but this is showerthoughts, not theydidthemath

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[–] HeinousTugboat@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It works a bit better for alcohol, as that is mixing of two liquids.

Just to stress the "bit better", 50 mL of alcohol added to 50 mL of water results in 96 mL of liquid. Even ABV's defined differently in different places and is a bit hinky.

[–] Jajcus@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, but at least 50mL of 95% alcohol is always the same amount of alcohol. And you won't be able to get over 100% alcohol content by volume, as you can get with sugar in water.

[–] HeinousTugboat@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

50mL of 95% alcohol is always the same amount of alcohol.

It's not, though. Some places use ABV, some use ABW.