03-20-2017 08:46
03-20-2017 08:46
The American Heart Association lists the daily "added sugar" limit they recommend here. For a male, it's 36g per day.
As someone trying to watch their sugar intake, I can't imagine this being TOO difficult if I try to eat more food with "no added sugar" - like fruit, milk, RxBars, etc.
That said, I can't imagine I can go crazy on that stuff either. How do I know where to draw the line when eating natural sugar?
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03-20-2017 15:46
03-20-2017 15:46
Natural sugars are not usually much of a problem, @benjaminsweet, since they are processed much slower and differently after consumed. When I was working on getting out of Type 2 Diabetes, my main concern was the glycemic index of foods, not the sugar content.
03-20-2017 09:06
03-20-2017 09:06
@benjaminsweet wrote:As someone trying to watch their sugar intake, I can't imagine this being TOO difficult if I try to eat more food with "no added sugar" - like fruit, milk, RxBars, etc.
As a former Type 2 Diabetic, and now a Pre-Diabetic, I would suggest that the most important thing is to watch for "hidden" sugars in canned/processed foods. "No added sugar" does not mean that it does not have a lot of sugar in it. In addition to the common names like sugar, syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, fructose, lactose and maltose, some of the less apparent sugar names on labels include carbitol, concentrated fruit juice, corn sweetener, diglycerides, disaccharides, evaporated cane juice, erythritol, Florida crystals, fructooligosaccharides, galactose, glucitol, glucoamine, hexitol, inversol, isomalt, maltodextrin, malted barley, malts, mannitol, nectars, pentose, raisin syrup, ribose rice syrup, rice malt, rice syrup solids, sorbitol, sorghum, sucanat, sucanet, xylitol and zylose.
03-20-2017 15:40
03-20-2017 15:40
Right on, thanks for the answer. Much appreciated.
How do I know where to draw the line when talking strictly about natural sugars, though?
03-20-2017 15:46
03-20-2017 15:46
Natural sugars are not usually much of a problem, @benjaminsweet, since they are processed much slower and differently after consumed. When I was working on getting out of Type 2 Diabetes, my main concern was the glycemic index of foods, not the sugar content.
03-20-2017 21:41
03-20-2017 21:41
Thank you for the info 🙂