Skittles
In 1974, A British company invented a small chewy candy called Skittles. There many types of skittles such as sour Skittles, tropical Skittles, crazy cores Skittles, and a lot more. However for this particular project, I am doing the original Skittles. The original Skittles come with variety of flavors such as grape, lime, strawberry, lemon, and orange. Each of the Skittles have different ingredients which is why all of them taste different. In reality everybody needs sugar and that’s what all the Skittles can provide. That’s the thing they have in common. They all have sugar. The serving size for my particular skittles “the original” is 40g, or in other words ¼ of a cup. Within this amount of serving, there are 160 calories and only 15
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Sugar is covalent and is mainly made up sucrose.The chemical formula for sugar is C12H22O11. This ingredient was added to Skittles because sugar is the source of energy in which it helps your body to operate and it adds a sweet taste. Sugar is a small white crystalline solid that is soluble in water. The fact that sugar is soluble, it is easy to mix with other ingredients that requires water. People may think that sugar is harmless besides high blood pressure but that’s not the case. Sugar is slightly dangerous to the skin and eyes when it comes to ingestion or …show more content…
People always tell you that soda is bad for you but I bet you guys didn’t know that skittles are worse. Skittles has more sugar than Coco Cola. That’s not something good, you guys should take that into consideration. I know a lot of you guys eat Skittles a lot. I’m one of them which is why I picked this topic. I wanted to learn more about something I eat a lot. I honestly didn’t know a lot about Skittles until after this project. I’ve learned from researching. Eating a lot of Skittles is not healthy for your body at all. Yes, maybe eating a bag once awhile is okay but like 10 bags a week, yeah that’s something we should all avoid. I know we do not want health problem at a young age. I understand that it is addicting but let’s open our minds a little and think about the effect. Save time from the hospital, from school, from not having fun and eat less Skittles like once a
Sugar is covalent and is mainly made up sucrose.The chemical formula for sugar is C12H22O11. This ingredient was added to Skittles because sugar is the source of energy in which it helps your body to operate and it adds a sweet taste. Sugar is a small white crystalline solid that is soluble in water. The fact that sugar is soluble, it is easy to mix with other ingredients that requires water. People may think that sugar is harmless besides high blood pressure but that’s not the case. Sugar is slightly dangerous to the skin and eyes when it comes to ingestion or …show more content…
People always tell you that soda is bad for you but I bet you guys didn’t know that skittles are worse. Skittles has more sugar than Coco Cola. That’s not something good, you guys should take that into consideration. I know a lot of you guys eat Skittles a lot. I’m one of them which is why I picked this topic. I wanted to learn more about something I eat a lot. I honestly didn’t know a lot about Skittles until after this project. I’ve learned from researching. Eating a lot of Skittles is not healthy for your body at all. Yes, maybe eating a bag once awhile is okay but like 10 bags a week, yeah that’s something we should all avoid. I know we do not want health problem at a young age. I understand that it is addicting but let’s open our minds a little and think about the effect. Save time from the hospital, from school, from not having fun and eat less Skittles like once a