We often enjoy our favorite food or drink "treats" without considering their nutritional value, and learning what's actually in them can come as quite a shock. That's what TikToker @flavcity recently tried to demonstrate to his audience when he made a video about the sugar content in Dunkin Donuts' new Pumpkin Swirl Frozen Coffee drink.
"This drink has 185 grams of sugar in here...It's 46 teaspoons of sugar."
That sounds a little excessive, right? He went on to illustrate exactly what that looks like by pouring granulated sugar into an empty cup. Then he took it a step further and pulled out a box of 14 glazed vanilla donuts—which have the same amount of sugar as the coffee drink.
People were shocked at the amount of sugar.
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Others were annoyed that he bought it and didn't drink it, pointing out that he didn't need to buy it.
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Folks had a lot to say about what this sort of thing says about America.
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Many said that him doing the entire video while inside an actual Dunkin Donuts is the best part.
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A couple people brought up the fact that he called out the drink for not having pumpkin, when really it's pumpkin spice flavored.
Someone offered a suggestion for how this could be legislated out of existence.
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One of the biggest takeaways, however, was how few calories a donut has, relatively speaking.
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Our takeaway: it helps to be an informed customer at restaurants!
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