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ELI5:Why is it that when we sweeten a drink like tea or coffee we use 2-3 teaspoons of sugar, but sodas have around 12-14 teaspoons ?

When you prepare yourself a cup of coffee or tea, to sweeten it you usualy drop a max of 2-3  of sugar in to it. 

Sodas seem to have 3 times as much sugar on them, while i do understand that sodas are drunk cold so the taste needs to be stronger, it seems like an exagerated ammount of sugar for a drink.
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Cold suppresses the taste of sweetness on the tongue.  Ever taste a warm coke? It's extremely sweet, *too sweet*,  but a cold coke is refreshing. More sugar is needed to sweeten a cold beverage rather than a warm beverage. For this reason, soda companies anticipate this and design their beverages such that they taste sweet at a cold temperature, which necessitates adding a lot more sugar than you would think. Next time, try a room temperature soda and notice how syrupy sweet it is, then compare to an ice cold soda.