It sounds unbelievable, but this is the case with the average American diet. Added sugars are in most packaged products you buy at the supermarket. Even ones you would not expect such as yogurt smoothies, frozen entrees, healthy cereals, pasta sauce, and salad dressing. This can add up to 30 teaspoons of added sugar a day (just “added sugar”, not including natural sugars in fruit or milk) and 500 calories a day. This totals almost 100 pounds of added sugar a year per person.
How do you know if a food has a lot of sugar?
On the label in the ingredients list look for 2 things:
1 – the first 3 or 4 ingredients are a sugar, any sugar.
2 – there are many sugars forms hidden throughout the ingredient list.
Sugar comes in so many names. High-fructose corn syrup may be the most known but the list is much longer. How many of these are in the foods in your cupboard and fridge?
- Brown sugar
- Corn sweeteners
- Corn Syrup
- Crystalline fructose
- Dextrose
- Fructose
- Fruit juice concentrates
- Glucose
- High-fructose corn syrup
- Honey syrup
- Invert sugar
- Malt syrup
- Maltodextrin
- Maltose
- Maltose
- Molasses
- Raw sugar
- Rice sugar
- Rice syrup
- Sucrose
- Sugar
Do you want to lose up to 50 pounds in a year? Cut out the added sugars and you may.
More about sugars in the next post … stay tuned.
Live Fit and Healthy.
