How many tablespoons of sugar is in a 20 oz bottle of cola?

Answer 1

None. Coke has been sweetener with high fructose corn syrup since the 1980. The last major brand in the US that was sugar sweetened was Sprite.

A couple of years later, Jolt was introduced as a response to the wimpification of pop. promising "all of the sugar and twice the caffeine," but it tasted bad. While there is currently a Jolt cola on the market, it isn't sweetened with sugar and when I tried it, it was flat, as if the carbonation leaked out.

Around Lent, in markets with a large Jewish population, one sometimes finds Mexican Coke in small glass bottles with painted labels. It tends to be rather expensive, but it meets the requirements for "Kosher for Passover" or something like that.

In certain markets, there's also "Pepsi Throwback", which is a sugar-sweetened Pepsi apparently using a formulation from the 1950s. Distribution is spotty. I've seen 12-packs of Throwback cans in Walmart, and am told that the Speedway gas stations sell Throwback in bottles. I've never seen it available as a fountain beverage, or in 2-liter bottles. It, too, tends to be on the pricey side, though not as expensive as those tiny bottles of Mexican Coke.

Answer 2

A 20oz Cherry Coke contains 70 grams of sugars. There is more sucrose (table sugar) than high-fructose corn syrup, but not all of the 70 grams are sucrose.

Answer 3

There is about 65 grams of sugar in most colas at 20 ounces; since 14.2 grams is one tablespoon, that is about 4.5 tablespoons of sugar equivalent