sugar grams

[Shelly51]

How do I figure out how many grams of sugar I have in a day?

[whome]

one LEVEL teaspoonful of sugar weighs 4 - 5 grams or get a decent scale and weigh the content of whatever sort of spoonful you use to add the sugar to your coffee or tea or oatmeal or whatever

[Inga]

If you are logging your food in the fitbit log just click on each food name and you'll see the breakdowns. You can keep a tally of the actual sugars for each item that way.

[KJScarp]

An important thing to remember is not to forget to count the hidden sugars that are found in processed foods.  The new FDA food labeling laws will now require that products have a line item for added sugars, but that will not be rolled out for another 2 years.  This is a good article that talks about sugar intake:  http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/truth-about-sugar

You are getting added sugars if you eat:  cereals, soda, canned spaghetti sauces, bread, hamburger/hot dog buns, hot dogs, ketchup, salad dressings, yogurts, just to name a few.  This is a great article that shows that a lot of so-called healty foods are sugar-laden:  http://www.thestar.com/life/health_wellness/nutrition/2014/03/06/finding_the_amount_of_sugar_hidden_...

This is a nice visual that shows how much sugar is naturally occurring in fruits (and the previous link has a nice reminder that many of the fruits we eat today have been bred to have more sugar content to appeal to the hyper-palatability that we have now come to expect in foods).  http://www.sugarstacks.com/fruits.htm  There's no denying that fruits have health benefits, but when choosing fruits, make choices as to ones that have low sugar content.

[Lorenzoo]

then you have to not it your self. Every day. They make it extremely difficult - when this info could very easily just be included in your report.

WHY?

they prevent you from tracking sugar with the Fitbit - because of the SUGAR LOBBY.

They threatened Fitbit and that is why we cant track Sugar. Fitbit is part of the unhealthy comporate machine.

Its the Corn and Sugar lobby.

[Onikenbai]

Do more shopping in Canada?  We label the bejezus out of our food and you know exactly how many grams of sugar, fat, trans fat, carbs and happiness are in everything before we buy it.  We do love to label.  A can of Coke has 45 grams and Nestea has 29 grams.  Bottled drinks are sugar bombs.  A bottle of anything is going to run you at least 50-something grams of sugar, which is about the same as a chocolate bar.  Drink water.  Most foods, you have to use an online database.  FB has one: it is not my favourite.  There are better nutritional information databases out there.  Google and hunt till you find one you like. 

Most nutritional gurus don't really count the sugars you take in from fruit, unless you are chowing down on fruit all day long, or have a real thing for bananas, because the benefits of the fibre and nutrition outweigh the cost of the sugar.  Smoothies are the exception, since that's like eating 7 pieces of fruit in one sitting.  See aforementioned sugar bomb.

[Heybales]

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@Shelly51 wrote:

How do I figure out how many grams of sugar I have in a day?

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It's a sub-item of Carbs on labels.

Fitbit doesn't show it. Perhaps in Premium they do.

MFP can show it for reports, and you can select a column to show how the day is going with sugars.

I guess the corporate machine and sugar lobby didn't get to them for some reason. Too big? Or, shall we say, interesting conspiracy theory?

Or more likely Fitbit stopped their development of the food diary when they started syncing with sites that handled it better already?

Beware of fruits then, lots of sugars.

To the body as far as reponse - same as any other sugar listed in above posts.

As far as nutrition - may be differences.