THE MANY “DISGUISES” OF SUGAR

There are lots of different ways added sugar can be listed on ingredients labels:

• sucrose
• glucose
• fructose
• maltose
• fruit juice
• molasses
• hydrolysed starch
• invert sugar
• corn syrup
• honey

Nutrition labels tell you how much sugar a food contains:

• HIGH: ≥ 22.5g of total sugars per 100g
• LOW: ≤ 5g of total sugars per 100g

You can quickly determine whether a food has a high, medium, or low level of sugars thanks to color-coded labels:

• RED = HIGH (≥ 22.5g of sugar per 100g or ≥ 27g per portion)
• AMBER = MEDIUM (≥ 5g but ≤ 22.5g of sugar per 100g)
• GREEN = LOW (≤ 5g of sugar per 100g)