Sugar Detective

Each case shows a product's nutrition label with the sugar line hidden. In guess rounds, estimate how many teaspoons of sugar are in a serving or the whole container, then reveal the truth, the closer you are, the more points you bank. In trap rounds, judge whether a front-of-pack claim is honest or a marketing trap that the back panel contradicts.

• Sugar is shown in teaspoons (about 4 grams each) to make it concrete.
• Watch the serving size, per-container totals are far higher than per-serving.
• Six cases per game with a detective-accuracy meter.

• Desktop: type your teaspoon guess and click Accuse, or pick Honest / Marketing trap.
• Phone & tablet: type with the keypad and tap the buttons, fully touch-friendly.

• Daily: a shared seeded set of products.
• Practice: fresh randomized products each game.

• Multiply per-serving sugar by servings per container when the question asks about the whole pack.
• A 'low fat' or 'natural' front claim often hides a high sugar panel, read the numbers.

Sugar Detective is a nutrition-literacy game about reading labels and seeing through marketing claims.

• Skills: nutrition labels, added sugar, media literacy, healthy eating
• Best for: roughly grades 4–10 (ages 9–16)
• For parents & teachers: reading food labels critically.

Estimating the sugar in a serving with the line hidden is reading a nutrition facts label by inference.

Hiding the figure and asking for teaspoons is the original device.

Teaspoons are the right unit for the lesson. Grams of added sugar are abstract, four grams to a teaspoon converts to something imaginable, and the surprise is consistent — savoury products routinely carry amounts nobody would add deliberately.

Sugar Detective is a nutrition-literacy game about reading labels and seeing through marketing claims. It's an original free browser game made for PlayPendium.

A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.