High sugar – 22.5 grams or more
Low sugar – 5 grams or less
Information on the amount of free sugar that is added into a foodstuff can be found on the nutrition label, located under the title “of which sugars” usually under carbohydrate information.
There are many different names of added “free” sugar found on food labels, examples being: Those ending in -ose e.g. fructose, glucose, sucrose, dextrose, amongst other examples.
Other common examples of added “free” sugar: Cane sugar, corn sugar, fruit juice concentrates, high-fructose corn syrup, honey, hydrolysed starch, maple syrup, molasses, amongst many other examples.
It is not necessary to memorise the many different types of sugar, what’s best to do is memorise those with similar endings e.g. -ose and keep an eye out for the amounts of sugar under the ‘added sugar’ section of nutrition labels.
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