For a reference, 4 grams of sugar is the equivalent to 1 teaspoon of sugar.
So eating one Tootsie Pop is like eating 4 teaspoons of sugar in one sitting.
1. Worst sugar culprit: Tootsie Pop – 16 grams of sugar
2. Skittles – 15g
3. Candy Corn – 15g
4. Junior Mints – 14g
5. Bottle Caps – 13g
6. Whoppers – 13g
7. Nerds – 12g
8. Blow Pops – 12g
9. M&M’s (regular) – 11.5g
10. Dots – 11g
11. Now and Later – 11g
12. Milky Way Dark – 11g
13. 100 Grand – 11g
14. Milky Way – 10.9g
15. Babe Ruth – 10g
16. 3 Musketeers – 10g
17. Butterfinger – 10g
18. Good & Plenty – 9.3g
19. Almond Joy – 9.2g
20. M&M’s (peanut) – 9.1g
21. Take 5 – 9g
22. Mike & Ike – 9g
23. Heath Bar – 8.7g
24. York Peppermint Pattie – 8.6g
25. Twix – 8g
26. Hershey’s Bar – 7.7g
27. Sugar Daddy – 7.7g
28. Nutrageous – 7.5g
29. Snickers – 7g
30. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup – 7g
31. Jelly Belly Jelly Beans – 7g
32. Kit Kat – 6.7g
33. Milk Duds – 6.3g
34. Smarties – 6.3g
35. Nestle Crunch – 5.6g
36. Dum Dum – 5g
37. Twizzlers – 5g
38. Mary Jane – 4g
39. Dubble Bubble – 4g
40. Bazooka Joe – 3g
41. Jolly Rancher – 2.7g
42. Tootsie Roll (mini) – 2.5g
43. Hershey Kiss – 2.6g
44. SweetTarts – 2.4g
45. “Best” choice: Pixy Stick (mini 6-inch stick) – 2 grams of sugar