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In America, there's a drink you can buy right now that contains over 169 grams of sugar.
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That is an entire week's worth of sugar in one drink.
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And there's another company who secretly wiped their entire nutritional information from every corner of their website,
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following backlash from launching an 840 calorie drink.
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Food companies in America aren't just selling sugar anymore, they're actually racing to see who can pack in the most into their products
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and competing for their next viral moment even if it means getting an entire generation hooked on sugar.
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The latest and most popular sugary trend is the Utah -founded Crumble Cookie, limited edition cookies that change it up every week,
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collaborating with huge dessert brands and even celebrities to hold the title of the world's best cookie.
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Now, before we get into this video, make sure you're subscribed, because I'm trying to hit 500 ,000 followers by the end of 2026.
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And also, I just want to quickly say that I'm moving house at the minute, so that's why my background is very boring.
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Anyway, Crumble's marketing plays a huge part in the brand's success
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because they're not just cookies and they're actually used as status symbols at this point.
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They're meant to be incredibly aesthetic and continue to go viral on social media every time a new flavour drops,
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with influencers running to Crumble to be the first one to film a review.
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Not only this, but the cookies themselves are very expensive.
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A single cookie is almost $5 and the most commonly bought box of four comes in at nearly $17.
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The marketing of these cookies is genuinely genius, really.
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The aesthetic of the brand, the pale pink cups, the pastel boxes,
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the bright colours and glossy packing all help to disguise crumble as a sweet treat rather than what it actually is.
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More than an entire day's worth of sugar in a single cookie.
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Instead of the food being the reward, the entire experience becomes what consumers chase.
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And it's like a dopamine machine.
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And the celebrity and influencer endorsement of these insanely unhealthy cookies
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and drinks makes them feel normal to consume regularly rather than what they should be, which is a sweet treat.
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And before we look into how densely packed these cookies are, I want to start off by saying that eating these cookies isn't inherently bad.
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If I ever go to America, I'll probably try one.
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But the problem here lies in the deception from Crumble,
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in making it difficult for consumers to know how many calories they're getting and how much sugar is in these cookies.
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And they're marketing to a younger and more impressionable audience, people who probably care less about how many calories and how much sugar they're eating.
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Over the past few years since Crumble's launch, the company has slowly increased the size and sugar content in each of their cookies.
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While the options do change every week, they do have classic flavours that remain the same.
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One of these is the Sugar Pink Cookie, which started off with an insane 64 grams of sugar and 520 calories.
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Since then, Crumble has increased the size by 12 .5%,
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which might seem small, but it has raised the sugar content to 76 grams and an overall calorie count of 760.
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It's insane that one cookie contains this many calories.
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It's just as much, if not more, than a big meal.
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And the change has gone pretty much unnoticed.
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So customers are eating an extra 240 calories without even realizing.
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But to make things even worse, this is actually one of the lowest calorie cookies on the entire Crumble menu.
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Because of the nature of the brand, they thrive on going viral.
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Every week, they need a new flavor to drop to become a trend.
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Crumble is a permanent competition to itself, introducing new cookies constantly, each with a higher sugar content than the last.
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The Olivia Rodrigo Guts cookie contained 58 grams of sugar and 960 calories in the entire thing.
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This cookie was pretty controversial as it was marketed towards teenage
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girls as a limited time drop to help promote her new album and tour.
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It's essentially an overpriced piece of consumable merch and contains more than the double amount of recommended sugar for teenage girls.
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The highest calorie cookie ever released by Crumble, to date, as I'm sure they'll find a way to beat this record,
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is the Chocolate Peanut Butter Sandwich cookie featuring Oreos and Reese's.
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Just by the name alone, you know that the sugar content is going to be insane.
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The cookie contains an astronomical 1 ,250 calories, and you're not going to believe this, 85 grams of sugar.
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That is a total of 20 teaspoons of sugar, and triple the amount of daily recommended sugar.
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If you're anything like me, you're probably wondering how on earth Crumble is fitting this many calories into a single cookie.
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Well, the answer is on the nutrition label, which is conveniently hidden, but we'll discuss that later.
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First of all, these cookies are huge.
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They're so big, in fact, that Crumble actually displays on the nutrition label that just one quarter of the cookie is a portion size.
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But obviously, no one's paying attention to that.
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They're just going to have a full cookie because that looks like one serving.
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It's natural to expect customers to eat the whole thing because it's literally one cookie.
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But what no one expects is for the cookie to contain
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more than 1 ,000 calories in at least double the recommended amount of sugar.
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It's pretty ironic too, considering that they have the daily recommended calorie intake at the bottom of their website.
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Like they aren't selling cookies that contain more than half that.
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Now, as the food market becomes more and more saturated, brands are having to make the most extreme food combinations possible to keep gaining interest,
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hoping for their viral moment.
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Something else that has been going viral at the moment is protein products with every product under the sun, including popcorn and even vapes,
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slapping on the protein tagline and trying to seem like a healthier product.
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Now, I want to do a full video on this trend at some point, but some of the worst examples of this are protein bars.
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I think it's fair to say
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that most people enjoy protein bars as a pre -
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or post -gym snack because they think it's a healthier option when compared to a chocolate bar.
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To some extent, this can be true depending on which one you get.
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They have a lot of protein in and can be quite filling, but there's so many different kinds on the market,
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and some of them contain an insane amount of sugar.
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For example, these Gatorade whey protein bars have over 350 calories and 29 grams of sugar.
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And there's so many like this that are more dense in sugar than in protein.
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You'd be better off than having an actual chocolate bar than any of these so -called protein bars.
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A lot of the deception surrounding hidden sugar stems from the marketing.
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For decades, breakfast cereal has been marketed as a nutritional meal packed with fiber and essential vitamins and minerals.
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Parents are happy to give their kids a bowl every morning, but cereal isn't what it used to be.
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And it's gone from a healthy breakfast to literally just a sugary dessert.
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The cereal with the highest sugar content I could find is Kellogg's Honey Smacks, which contains an insane 21 grams of sugar per serving.
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And that's assuming if you measure out with 36 grams serving size, which I can guarantee most people don't.
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So in the entire bowl of cereal, 55 % of it is entirely sugar.
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And the worst part is people don't even like this cereal and say it's not even any good.
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Eating so much sugar early in the morning will leave you more tired than
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when you woke up as it's so full of refined sugar and little of anything else, like fiber or protein, to slow down your digestion.
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So, your blood sugar spikes, and then it crashes very quickly, which causes you to feel very hungry.
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Plus, cereals like these are so processed that they don't even keep you full in the first place.
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And because of this, you're more likely to reach for a quick snack like a cereal bar
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or another processed food just to keep you full before lunch, which just adds to the amount of sugar consumed in one day.
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Now, it feels like people have become so reliant on sugar that it feels like an addiction now.
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The majority of food is filled with added sugar and there are constantly new trends of sugary filled snacks,
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protein bars, anything else you can think of just filled with sugar.
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And one of these trends happens to be the dirty soda trend which has become so popular that it's almost mainstream now.
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Now the dirty soda trend originated in Utah
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which is the same as crumble cookies and it's a huge part of Mormon culture.
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The religion stipulates that people can't drink alcohol
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or hot caffeinated drinks like tea or coffee but a few Mormons found a loophole.
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There's no restriction around sodas, so the pioneers of the new drink created customized versions of
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different sodas to get their caffeine fix from a different source instead.
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Custom dirty soda drink shops started popping up all around Utah, like Swig and Sodalicious,
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with huge lines starting in the early hours for customers to get their morning dirty soda instead of their morning coffee.
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Now, to make a dirty soda, you first need to pick your ice, pebbled or crushed.
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Then you have to start with your soda base, something like Coke, Dr. Pepper, Sprite, or Mountain Dew.
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After that, you pick your flavorings, and there are many, many flavorings, mostly in fruity syrups like coconut, raspberry, or lime.
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Some drinks have more than 10 pumps of syrup in it.
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Then finally, you add your creamer, and this is what makes it dirty.
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You can either have coffee creamer or sweet cream or half and half.
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Some of the highest calorie drinks from Swig are crazy, like the Riptide and Bloody Wild containing over 600 calories.
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Swig doesn't display the exact sugar contents for each of their drinks, but you don't have to be a genius to know that they're high.
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Based on the amount of sugar in the soda and syrups,
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it's fair to say that the large drinks could contain anywhere from 60 grams to 100 grams of sugar.
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But to be fair to Swig, I don't think they're all 100 % that bad.
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You can easily swap out a sugary soda for a dire one or swap to zero calorie syrups, reducing the sugar content by a lot.
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They're fine for a treat every now and then, but best to avoid every single day.
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However, it.
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The dirty sodas from Swig aren't nearly as bad as the ones from Crumble yet again, who I am bullying this video.
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They know how to take the cake, literally, for having the highest amount of sugar on any dirty sodas on the market,
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because they've even been referred to as diabetic sodas.
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which can top up to 186 grams of sugar.
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And to give you a proper idea about how insane the sugar contents are in these dirty sodas, the Crazy Cousins Charger Dirty Soda,
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which contains an insane 186 grams of sugar in 840 calories, is the equivalent of 19 Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
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But that isn't the end of the story here with Grumble, and it actually gets much, much worse.
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While researching this video, I found it incredibly difficult to find the actual calories and nutritional information for their drinks and cookies.
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Now, as it turns out, Crumble removed their ingredients lists and nutritional information from the entire online menu,
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following outrage over the crazy cousin's drink that I just mentioned.
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Honestly, it's insane to me that this is even legal.
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If you order a collection or delivery with crumble, you will go through the entire process not knowing how many calories you're consuming.
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But it's not just even the calories, you don't know what ingredients you're eating or how much of each ingredient.
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In the UK, it's a legal requirement to display nutritional information on foods and drinks,
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so to me, that just seems very wrong not to do so.
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Now we don't have a crumble in the UK, so I can't exactly go and try the drinks now on the video.
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However, Starbucks is in the UK, and they do share their nutritional information.
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And I know
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Starbucks aren't a great company, but at least they don't try and hide it.
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Now, I don't really like syrups in my coffee.
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They're just way too sweet for me.
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And that's why I rarely ever go to Starbucks, because most of the drinks on the menu have at least five pumps of syrup in them.
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Unless I get like a normal flat white or a black Americano.
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But I understand
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Starbucks is very popular here in the UK.
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And one of the most popular coffee drinks is the Caramel Macchiato, which contains several pumps of vanilla and caramel syrup,
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and even more caramel sauce on top.
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The entire drink has 35 grams of sugar and over 300 calories
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and the frappuccinos from Starbucks are even worse with the white chocolate mocha
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and java chip fraps containing over 90 grams each and 600 calories.
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And this is just what's on the menu and people have become
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so accustomed to sugaring their drinks that the standard menu isn't enough
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so custom orders have become a lot more popular and contain way more sugar.
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Now that looks completely undrinkable.
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It's just more than half filled with sauce.
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And I don't even want to know what the sugar content is because it's got to be outrageous.
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And I get that these types of videos are sometimes made as a joke by staff,
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but I've genuinely seen so many of these videos are made online
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that I believe a lot of people are making them genuinely.
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But it doesn't end with Starbucks either, as pretty much every drinks -focused drive -thru is offering drinks with a higher and higher sugar content,
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all because companies are trying to stay relevant and trying to get their viral moment.
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We've gotten so used to expecting sugar in everything we eat, especially Americans.
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American food is so unregulated that when the same products get shipped to Europe, the nutritional information is always completely different because of the restricted ingredients,
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and they end up having a lot less calories too.
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Ultimately, eating foods and drinks with this high amount of sugar is dangerous.
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They're empty calories so they provide you with little feeling of fullness and just make them want to eat something else later, contributing to obesity.
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And when food companies are constantly fighting for their place at the top, inventing new flavours every week for a chance to go viral,
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caring little for the substance of what they're creating, it's the consumers that suffer.
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And if you want to see the effects of a high sugar diet and a high calorie diet,
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click the video on your screen now to watch a video on my 600 pound life.
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Make sure you subscribe to my main channel, my compilation channel, follow me on Instagram at BigCraigYT.
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Thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next one.
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Wortschatz und Sprechhinweise zu dieser Lektion
Diese Sprechübung basiert auf dem Video „The Sugar Epidemic Is Way Worse Than We Thought..“. Diese Wörter kommen am häufigsten vor: sugar, cookie, calorie, drink, crumble. Dieses Video enthält 168 Sätze und 2573 Wörter zum Nachsprechen. Der gesprochene Teil dauert 13:08. Der Sprecher spricht schnell, etwa 196 Wörter pro Minute – rechne mit verbundenen und verkürzten Lauten. Nur 80 % der Wörter gehören zu den 3.000 häufigsten im Englischen, der Wortschatz ist also anspruchsvoll.
Wichtiger Wortschatz in diesem Video
15 lernenswerte Wörter aus dem Video, mit Aussprache und Bedeutung:
| Wort | Aussprache | Bedeutung |
|---|---|---|
| cookie Substantiv | /ˈkʊki/ | Cookie |
| calorie Substantiv | /ˈkæləɹi/ | Kalorie |
| soda Substantiv | /ˈsoʊdə/ | Soda |
| gram Substantiv | /ˈɡɹæm/ | Gramm |
| insane Adjektiv | /ɪnˈseɪn/ | wahnsinnig, verrückt |
| viral Adjektiv | /ˈvaɪɹəl/ | Virus-, viral |
| syrup Substantiv | /ˈsɪɹ.əp/ | Sirup |
| cereal Substantiv | /ˈsɪə.ɹɪ.əl/ | Getreide, Korn |
| nutritional Adjektiv | /njuːˈtɹɪʃ.ə.nəl/ | Ernährungs- |
| menu Substantiv | /ˈmɛn.juː/ | Menü |
| ingredient Substantiv | /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/ | Zutat |
| pump Substantiv | /pʌmp/ | Pumpe |
| genuinely Adverb | /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/ | wirklich, echt |
| snack Substantiv | /snæk/ | Imbiss, Happen |
| consume Verb | /kənˈsum/ | verbrauchen |
Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst
| Wort | Aussprache | Bedeutung |
|---|---|---|
| end up Verb | sich herausstellen, am Ende irgendwo / etwas sein | |
| pop up Verb | auftauchen, aufkreuzen | |
| slow down Verb | verlangsamen | |
| turn out Verb | sich herausstellen als/dass, sich erweisen als | |
| wake up Verb | /ˌweɪk ˈʌp/ | aufwachen, erwachen |
Grammatik in diesem Video
Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:
| Struktur | Im Video |
|---|---|
| Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig ist | has slowly increased · has increased · has raised |
| Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tut | was marketed · is conveniently hidden · has been marketed |
| Relativsätze who / which + Satz – eine Zusatzinformation über eine Person oder Sache | people who probably · label, which is · trend which has |
Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest
Der Sprecher verwendet 55 Kurzformen und abgeschwächte Formen, zum Beispiel they're, don't, you're. Sprich sie in der kurzen Form, so wie du sie hörst.
- Die „th“-Laute: aesthetic /ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/, thrive /θɹajv/, unhealthy /ʌnˈhɛl.θi/
- Die Laute „sh“ und „zh“: nutritional /njuːˈtɹɪʃ.ə.nəl/, nutrition /njuːˈtɹɪʃ.ən/, deception /dɪˈsɛpʃən/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, controversial /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈvɝ.ʃəl/
- Lange Wörter – auf die Betonung achten: nutritional /njuːˈtɹɪʃ.ə.nəl/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, celebrity /səˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ɾi/
Laute, die Deutschsprachigen schwerfallen:
- /w/ — mit runden Lippen, nicht wie das deutsche „w“ (/v/): swap /ˈswɑp/, reward /ɹɪˈwɔɹd/, requirement /ɹɪˈkwaɪɹmənt/, wipe /waɪp/, whey /hweɪ/
- Stimmhafter Auslaut — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ am Wortende nicht verhärten: teenage /ˈtiːneɪd͡ʒ/, subscribe /səbˈskɹaɪb/, reward /ɹɪˈwɔɹd/, pound /ˈpaʊ̯nd/, outrage /ˈaʊt.ɹeɪd͡ʒ/
- /æ/ — offener als „ä“: calorie /ˈkæləɹi/, gram /ˈɡɹæm/, snack /snæk/, guarantee /ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/, slap /slæp/
So übst du mit diesem Video
- Höre dir das ganze Video einmal an, ohne zu sprechen, und notiere die Wörter, die du nicht kennst.
- Beginne mit 0,75-facher Geschwindigkeit, sprich Satz für Satz nach und wechsle zur normalen Geschwindigkeit, sobald es leichtfällt.
- Nimm dich auf und vergleiche mit dem Original; achte dabei auf Wörter wie cookie, calorie, soda.
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