How many sugar cubes' worth of sugar is in a two-cup pack of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups?
About 6 sugar cubesA two-cup pack of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups has about 22 g of sugar, and one cube is 4 g.
It takes about 6 sugar cubes.
How we worked it out
A two-cup pack of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups has about 22 g of sugar, and one cube is 4 g. Standard 4 g sugar cubes. Sugar amounts from nutrition labels and USDA data. Real life adds a little friction and waste, so treat the number as a solid ballpark rather than a lab result. The constants behind every experiment are on the science page.
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This was one of the five experiments in It Took #26. In the game you guess first, then the experiment plays out with your number: too few and it fails, too many and it overshoots.
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