How Much Added Sugar is In Your Diet?
The World Health Organization created quite a stir recently when they announced we should cut our added sugar intake to only 5% of our daily calories ( WHO | Draft Guideline: Sugars intake for adults and children ). Sounds easy? Not really as manufacturers sneak added sugar into almost every food we eat. The WHO focused on all sugars, but in this blog I will focus on ADDED sugar, what manufacturers add in processing. Added sugars are n ot sugars naturally present in foods like fructose in an apple or lactose in milk. So what did the WHO propose and why? Currently, WHO recommends added sugars should make up less than 10% of our daily calories. WHO Draft guidelines: Sugar should be less than 10% of our total calories with even more health benefits if we reduce sugars to less than 5% of our daily calories. What is 5%? This means reducing our sugars to about 25 grams a day or 6 teaspoons for adul...