South African adults consume an average of 2.8 cans of non-diet fizzy drinks a week. (AMPS2009A)
This week’s theme: Health in South Africa
Related facts:
- Heavy drinkers 3.6 million South African adults have consumed 6 or more bottles,...
- Movers and shakers 2.4 million South African adults go to a gym or health...
- Drink drink drink. Shareholders too 23% of those in LSMs one to five have consumed beer...
Seems like very little – I would have thought a lot more!
According to wiki there are 39g of carbohydrates (all sugar) in a can of coke. A teaspoon of sugar has 4g. So a can of coke will have 10 teaspoons of sugar. In other words, it is like finishing at least a 500g bag of sugar every month. Thats a lot of sugar.
What % of this is Coke or Coke owned products? Has Coke’s market share changed much over the years?
From the blog on Coke/Pepsi drinkers (27 Nov 2009) we know that there are 12.4 times more Coke drinkers in SA than Pepsi drinkers.