100g of mango has 14g of sugar
100g of watermelon has 6.2g of sugar
100g of navel orange has 12g of sugar
100g of sugar has 100g of sugar, 1 can of Dr Pepper has 40g of sugar
It's both pure sugar AND more sugar. You have to eat more than half a pound of mango to get to the same sugar as a Dr Pepper.
100 g of Dr. Pepper has 11g of sugar
People drink 10 cans of Dr. Pepper.
Point being that sugary drinks/foods didn’t suddenly come to existence.
There are sugary products everywhere because we want them - or you might say we were made to want them. We made it central to our culture in many ways, and accepted terrible dietary habits as the norm. The wide availability of something like Dr Pepper is as much a cause as a reflection of that.