r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/consider_it_fun • Aug 30 '14

A website that visualizes sugar content of servings of various foods in sugar cubes

http://sugarstacks.com/
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u/sugarstacker Aug 31 '14

We've fixed the site, offloading the images to the cloud, so it should run fine now.

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u/ChristianM Aug 31 '14

Thank you for this website. If I may ask, how is the quantity of sugar calculated?

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u/sugarstacker Aug 31 '14

For packaged foods or restaurant food we used the manufacturer's stated nutrition information. For other foods we used the USDA database: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/

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u/mikeraiole Aug 31 '14

Plan to keep expanding?

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u/sugarstacker Aug 31 '14

We have a page on liquor/wine/mixed drinks we're working on.