No more than 6 teaspoons of sugar a day for kids

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN

Updated 1645 GMT (0045 HKT) August 24, 2016

While food accounts for a large portion of the added sugar in our diet, many experts recommend cutting back on sugary beverages to reduce daily intake. Consumption of sugary drinks might lead to an estimated 184,000 adult deaths each year worldwide, according to <a href="http://now.tufts.edu/news-releases/sugary-drinks-linked-high-death-tolls-worldwide" target="_blank">research published in the journal Circulation</a>, an update of a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/19/health/sugary-drinks-deaths/">2013 American Heart Association conference presentation</a>. In the following slides, we compare the amount of sugar found in some of America's top-selling beverages -- according to Beverage Industry magazine's <a href="http://www.bevindustry.com/articles/86549-state-of-the-industry-report?v=preview" target="_blank">2013 State of the Industry Report</a> -- to the sugar found in common sugary snacks.
Photos: How much sugar is in that drink?
While food accounts for a large portion of the added sugar in our diet, many experts recommend cutting back on sugary beverages to reduce daily intake. Consumption of sugary drinks might lead to an estimated 184,000 adult deaths each year worldwide, according to research published in the journal Circulation, an update of a 2013 Americ