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SUGAR
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hidden sugars in our foods
How much sugar is actually in your food?
With food labels being confusing, uninformative, and pretty useless (who actually calculates things based on percent daily value?), it's up to us to find out how much sugar is actually in our foods until Health Canada implements stricter regulation and guidelines into food labeling and how much sugar can be added to food products.
This is not a new method, but a super simple way to figuring out how much sugar is in our foods:
Example: Yoplait Light Vanilla Yogurt
1. Look at the nutritional label in the back of the food you are eating and note the amount of sugar it contains (in grams)
2. Divide that amount by 4 to see how many sugar cubes or teaspoons of sugar are in that food
Be sure to also check out "Sugar Stacks," a webiste dedicated to showing how much sugar is in the most popular drinks and food products through sugar cubes.
We can see that there are 10g of sugar in one serving of Yoplait Light Yogurt
Divide 10g by 4 = 2.5
That equals to 2.5 sugar cubes or 2.5 teaspoons of sugar
1 teaspoon = 4 grams or 1 sugar cube = 4 grams
Measurements
Check out the sugar content in some our favourite foods, done by Maclean's
