Your favorite sodas have enough sugar to make huge lollipops

Despite what you may have heard, Coke is not the new ebola.

By now, everyone on the planet has likely seen The Renegade Pharmacist's infographic about what happens to your body immediately after you drink a can of Coke. It's gone viral at levels usually reserved for adorable or grumpy cats.

However, don't believe everything you read.

Though many of those claims have been debunked (Kimber Stanhope Ph.D., RD told BuzzFeed that insulin spikes don't cause your liver to create fat and Michael A. Taffe, Ph.D. said that many of the statements on the caffeine in Coke are "breathlessly sensationalistic"), it doesn't change the fact that Coke and most soft drinks are loaded with sugar.

But what does that mean to the average consumer? After all, what does something like 39 grams of sugar (the amount in a standard U.S. sized can of Coke) look like?

Food photographer and artist Henry Hargreaves wanted to find out.

"After recently hearing a health professional refer to soda as "the cigarettes of our generation," I decided to do an experiment to show what's in soft drinks after the water is boiled away — in other words, dehydrating the hydrator. Once boiled, I took each remaining substance and poured it into a lollipop mold. After all, I figure that's what you're essentially getting: candy in costume as a soft drink," Hargreaves told Mashable.

He made the lollipops by tracing the base of each drink's bottle and making a lollipop mold for each drink. He then boiled each liquid until the water almost entirely evaporated and it was reduced to syrupy goo. He poured each mixture into its corresponding mold, added a lollipop stick and voila — a visual representation of all the sugar you don't know you're drinking.

The results don't surprise Hargreaves, who says "I knew they (sugary drinks) were kind of rubbish and I'd get a kick if someone was able to react in a way that might change their habits by seeing these."

Are you willing to drink a gigantic lollipop's worth of sugar during lunch every day? In this case, seeing really is believing.

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