Sugar
- Darragh Sheehy
According to the American Heart Association (AHA), the maximum amount of added sugars you should eat in a day are (7): Men: 150 calories per day (37.5 grams or 9 teaspoons). Women: 100 calories per day (25 grams or 6 teaspoons).
To be precise, 4.2 grams equals a teaspoon, but the nutrition facts round it to four grams.
How much sugar is in a chocolate bar?
Chocolate bar. With high sugar content, chocolate should always be viewed as an occasional treat. Some examples would be:
- Snickers bar (52.7g) - 6.75 teaspoons of sugar
- Milk chocolate bar (44g) - 5.75 teaspoons of sugar
- Milky Way bar (58g) - 8.75 teaspoons of sugar
- Twix bar (50.7g) - 6 teaspoons of sugar
- Milk chocolate M&M's packet (47.9 g) - 7.5 teaspoons of sugar
How much sugar do soft drinks contain?
Soft drinks often contain a high amount of sugar.
- Coca cola (one can) - 8.25 teaspoons of sugar
- Pepsi cola (one can) - 8.75 teaspoons of sugar
- Red Bull (one can) - 6.9 teaspoons of sugar
- Sprite (one can) - 8.25 teaspoons of sugar
Breakfast cereal in a bowl
cookie crisp are said to contain 87 and a half times more sugar than Shredded Wheat.
- Alpen - 5.75 teaspoons of sugar
- Cheerios - 1 teaspoon of sugar
- Corn Flakes - 2.4 teaspoons of sugar
- Cocoa Puffs - 9.25 teaspoons of sugarl
- Cookie Crisp - 8.75 teaspoons of sugar
- Shredded Wheat - 0.1 teaspoons of sugar
- Rice Krispies - 2.5 teaspoons of sugar
- Special K - 3 teaspoons of sugar
- Wheaties - 3.75 teaspoons of sugar
- Frosted Flakes - 8.75 teaspoons of sugar
How much sugar do cakes and desserts contain? Carrot CakeA medium slice of carrot cake contains approximately 3 teaspoons of sugar.
- Banoffee pie (1 medium portion) - 4.25 teaspoons of sugar
- Carrot cake (1 medium slice) - 3 teaspoons of sugar
- Custard (1 medium portion) - 3.25 teaspoons of sugar
- Chocolate mousse (1 medium portion) - 3 teaspoons of sugar
- Donut (1 jam doughnut) - 3.5 teaspoons of sugar
- Fruit pie (1 medium portion) - 3.5 teaspoons of sugar
- Fruit cake (1 medium slice) - 5 teaspoons of sugar
- Muffin (one chocolate chip muffin) - 4.75 teaspoons of sugar
- Ice cream (1 scoop) - 3 teaspoons of sugar
- Rice pudding (1 portion) - 3.75 teaspoons of sugar
- Sponge cake (1 medium slice) - 5.5 teaspoons of sugar
- Swiss roll (1 roll) - 2.5 teaspoons of sugar
How much sugar does fruit contain?
Fruits contain fructose, a type of sugar. Fresh fruit have no "added sugar", but as you can see below, their levels of sugar range from 1 teaspoon per 100 grams in cranberries to 4 teaspoons in grapes.
- Mangos - 3.2 teaspoons of sugar
- Bananas - 3 teaspoons of sugar
- Apples - 2.6 teaspoons of sugar
- Pineapples - 2.5 teaspoons of sugar
- Grapes - 4 teaspoons of sugar
- Lemons - 0.6 teaspoons of sugar
- Kiwi fruit - 2.3 teaspoons of sugar
- Apricots - 2.3 teaspoons of sugar
- Strawberries - 1.3 teaspoons of sugar
- Raspberries - 1 teaspoon of sugar
- Blueberries - 1.7 teaspoons of sugar
- Cranberries - 1 teaspoons of sugar
- Tomatoes - 0.7 teaspoons of sugar.
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