Dietary Reference Values in the UK & EU
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Dietary reference values and dietary guidelines | European Food Safety Authority
When I track on My Fitness Pal, if I have three pieces of fruit throughout the day I go over my sugar for the day and the app yells at me. And that's without any other snack or sugar and creamer in my coffee. Wth.
"all monosaccharides and disaccharides added to foods by the manufacturer, cook, or consumer, plus sugars naturally present in honey, syrups, and fruit juices". It is used to distinguish between the sugars that are naturally present in fully unrefined carbohydrates such as brown rice, wholewheat pasta, fruit, etc. and those sugars (or carbohydrates) that have been, to some extent, refined (normally by humans but sometimes by animals, such as the free sugars present in honey).
Although you can’t isolate the calories per serving from added sugars with the information on a nutrition label, it may be helpful to calculate the calories per serving from total sugars (added sugars and naturally occurring sugars). To do this, multiply the grams of sugar by 4 (there are 4 calories per 1 gram of sugar). For example, a product containing 15 g of sugar has 60 calories from sugar per serving.
I am not familiar with My Fitness Pal, but to the extent that it is failing to distinguish between free sugar versus refined sugar, it appears not to be following the correct methodology.
I didn't even catch that.
People often say 18 calories/teaspoon, which is about 5 gms.I was told that common table sugar contains about 18 calories per gram. That figure appears to be wrong and way off.
Various sources say there are 3.87 calories per gram of sugar, which rounds to 4 calories per gram.
See:
How Many Calories Are in One Gram of Sugar? | LIVESTRONG.COM
Sugar 101
I'm not sure. I'll have to buy the 3 pack DVD set, including "Ten Ways a Vegan Diet Will Help You Avoid the Scalpel" (That's we want to promote a vegan lifestyle - an alternative to liposuction and abdominoplasty!) ...
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/sugary-drinks-fact-sheet/
"People who drink this “liquid candy” do not feel as full as if they had eaten the same calories from solid food and do not compensate by eating less." So it's the cheeseburgers, chips, etc we eat WITH the sody pop (as Foghorn Leghorn calls it) that's the problem.