3 of last 4 days had NO refined sugar and it was a struggle! The 1 day was my homemade cheesecake in which I reduced the sugar in recipe and which I ate because I served it as dessert to my husband's relatives. My teeth felt really icky after eating It!
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Sugar is sugar! I think the food industry has about 50 different terms for it. Fructose is just as bad in juice form unless you eat the whole fruit with its fibre. Counting carbs or at least lower them has helped me shed weight.
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The only problem with trying to track "sugar" is that there is a major difference between 'natural' sugar (in whole fruits) vs. natural sugar in 100% juices, vs. 'junk' sugar(refined sugar & all its 'ose names, which should be avoided or at least limited). All of these would count the same in a Nutrition Tracker, but have vast differences in how they affect your body.
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For example:
1. Almond milk (regular vanilla): 7 grams (2 teaspoons) of sugar vs. Almond milk (unsweetened vanilla): 1g (0.33 teaspoons) of sugar
2. Prego spaghetti sauce: 10g sugar vs. Classico Fire Roasted Tomato (which contains no added sugar): 4g sugar
3. Yoplait strawberry yogurt (6oz): 18g sugar vs. plain non-fat greek yogurt with 1 tablespoon Smucker's Reduced Sugar Strawberry Preserves: 6.8g + 5g
It would help people to see alternatives, rather than just shame them for eating sugar. Report
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All of these would count the same in a Nutrition Tracker, but have vast differences in how they affect your body. Report