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How to use the word teaspoons in a Sentence?

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The American Heart Association recommends that added sugars make up less than 6% of calories per day, which works out to about 6 teaspoons of sugar per day for women, and 9 teaspoons per day for men.

Brooke Aggarwal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We did however find differences in added sugars consumption by race and Hispanic origin, for example, non-Hispanic Asian toddlers consumed the fewest added sugars at around 3.7 teaspoons [ a day ]. Non-Hispanic Black toddlers consumed the most added sugars at about 8.2 teaspoons [ a day ].

Kirsten Herrick

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This term about grams of sugar is so ambiguous. We try converting it into teaspoons so that people can really understand and see what a teaspoon is. So if you see on the back of a juice 20 grams [of sugar], divide that by four, and you know there's 5 teaspoons of sugar in that juice packet, and you'd never put 5 teaspoons in your cup of tea for your child, yet you'd give it in a juice quite easily. So people need to know that.

Damon Gameau

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The film is all about the hidden sugars. One tablespoon of barbeque sauce has 2 teaspoons of sugar in it. Things like ketchup have a teaspoon of sugar in 1 tablespoon. Low-fat mayonnaises, pasta sauces are [all] full of sugar, and they’re things that people would never consider.

Damon Gameau

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Actually it is very easy to exceed the recommendation of 12 teaspoons if you think of having maybe a bowl of breakfast cereals in the morning, then maybe you have a can of soda sometime during the day, then you have for dinner a sweetened yogurt, you are already above the 10 percent. You are already at approximately 15 teaspoons.

Francesco Branca

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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