More Sugar Than 8 Cookies
Not only does Mountain Dew contain a lot of caffeine, it also boasts a high sugar content. A 20 ounce bottle was measured out by Spoon University who discovered the soda contained 77 grams of sugar (roughly the equivalent of consuming eight and a half sugar cookies in one sitting). In terms of actual weight, Harvard School of Public Health determined the 77 grams would come out to 18 teaspoons of pure sugar. A 12 ounce bottle of Mountain Dew contains 46 grams of sugar.