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Hidden sugars sneaking into your diet!

26/4/2022

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You would have to be a hermit living in the Himalayas for the past 40 years to not have heard that sugar is not so good for you.   Studies show sugar as a contributing factor to most of our serious diseases including cancer, heart disease, diabetes to name a few.  There is still confusion over sugar though.
 
I don’t advocate removing all sugars, we need fruits and vegetables, rice produces a certain amount of sugar, carbohydrates sugars used for energy but it doesn’t make them “BAD”.   We need the nutrients form these foods.  They should be part of a balanced diet, in appropriate proportions.
 
The sugars we need to avoid are the highly processed sugars:
  • White sugar
  • High fructose corn syrup
  • Corn syrup/corn sweetener
  • Maltodextrin syrup
  • Rice syrup
  • Dextrose
  • Sucrose
 
You don’t need to worry so much about fresh foods, produce, it’s the products with the ingredients list you need to keep an eye on.
 
Here is an idea of how much extra sugar you are eating without realising
 
FOOD                                                                        AMOUNT OF SUGAR

1 squirt of ketchup                                                       1 -2 tsp

1 serving of pasta sauce (jar)                                        2 tsp

Probiotic drink                                                           2 tsp

Tinned soup                                                              3 tsp

Muesli (packaged)                                                      4 tsp

Flavoured yoghurt                                                      4-6 tsp

Small bottle of flavoured water                                     5 tsp

Baked beans (tin)                                                       5-6 tsp

Smoothie                                                                  6 tsp

Latte                                                                        6-7 tsp

Cereal bar                                                                 8 tsp

Fizzy drink (1 can)                                                      9-10 tsp

 
The daily recommended intake for sugar is:
  • Men – less than 9tsp per day
  • Women and children – less than 6 tsp per day
 
We need to eat some healthy sugars like fruits and vegetables, this is included in the recommended daily intake of sugar, so it’s easy to see how the average person is still going way over their daily sugar allowance for a healthy body.  The easiest way to reduce this is to eat primarily natural produce with products only making up a  very small part of our daily diet.
 
What is the hidden sugar that surprised you the most?  What is your sugar weakness?
 
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    Carina Kennedy was formerly a Nurse, now a Nutritional Therapist and Herbalist living in the west of Ireland.  Her passion is food, health and teaching clients to gain control of their life with simple techniques.

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