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Try, for a week, tracking the total amount of sugar you consume each day. If you live in the US, it's likely to be shockingly higher than you might have guessed
by cimmanom 8y ago
Try, for a week, tracking the total amount of sugar you consume each day. If you live in the US, it's likely to be shockingly higher than you might have guessed. For instance, a single "protein bar" can provide 3/4 of your recommended daily sugar intake (for a man) or 100% (for a woman).
Getting in the habit of checking utrition labels also reveals some surprises and frustrations. In the average American grocery store, try to find a single cold breakfast cereal with less than 5g of sugar per serving.
- jacobolus 8y agoThere are plenty of breakfast cereals like that: Cheerios, Chex, Rice Krispies, Corn flakes, Wheaties, Grape nuts, Life, Shredded wheat, .... They are still pure processed carbs, not really the best regular breakfast.
- cimmanom 8y agoI thought that too. And then I actually checked the nutrition labels for Cheerios and Rice Krispies, etc. Of the ones you listed, only Shredded Wheat has less than 5g sugar per serving.
- jacobolus 8y agoCheerios is 1g sugar per cup of cereal according to the label on the box in my pantry, etc.
- cimmanom 8y agoAre you in the US? Last I looked in the grocery store (about 3 months ago), it was 9g.
- jacobolus 8y agohttp://www.generalmills.com/~/media/Images/Brands/Nutritional_Images/Big_G/Cheerios.JPG http://www.generalmills.com/~/media/Images/Brands/Nutritiona... You were probably looking at one of the sugar-added variants like Honey Nut Cheerios, Very Berry Cheerios, Chocolate Cheerios, Frosted Cheerios, ...
- cimmanom 8y agoI suppose that's possible. Anyway, the rest of the cereals in that list do have significant amounts of sugar per serving.
- jacobolus 8y agoThe rest on my list were all <5g of sugar per serving. I explicitly checked most of them. There are several other similar commonly available breakfast cereals which also have <5g of sugar per serving. I can believe that your particular market didn’t stock any of the 50-year-old classic cereal brands and only stocked sugar-added cereals (frosted this, honey that, marshmallow everything), but among American markets I have seen it is typical to have at least 4 or 5 choices of low-sugar cold breakfast cereals on the shelf, as well as several choices of low-sugar hot cereals. [Of course, as I said before, they are all still pure processed carbs, and not the best regular breakfast.]