Year 3 have been investigating the nutritional labels to find out which soft drink contained the most sugar.  We created some questions which we voted on to find out our favourite drink, and which we thought was the healthiest, then we predicted which one would contain the most sugar.  We developed our ideas by thinking about reasons why.

"I think the fudge brownie milkshake will contain the most sugar because I know fudge is made with lots and lots of sugar, and so is a brownie!" Holly

"I predict the smoothie or the juice will be the healthiest because it contains lots of fruit.  Fruit gives us vitamins" Charlotte

"I think Prime will have the most sugar because my mum doesn't let me drink it that often!" Casper

We recorded how many grams of sugar there was in the entire bottle or carton, then we used calculators to help us find out how much sugar there was in 200ml.  Having the same volume of liquid meant it was easier to compare different drinks. We then weighed out that amount of sugar so that we could see the difference!

We all had lots of fun using different equipment and thinking like scientists by analysing data.  We were really surprised to find out that the fruit smoothie contained the most sugar with 23g per 200ml!  We were also astonished to realise that the prime hydration had lesson than 1g of sugar in it, meaning that lots of our predictions were wrong!