Hi
I'm new to trying to be sugar free. I am about 1/2 way through both Sweet Poison and Sweet poison quit plan. (My husband is reading Sweet poison and when he is reading it, I read the quit plan :-D ) I know that on the NIP, sugars can be 3g/100g or less. But is an item OK if the ingredients list has sugar in it and the NIP is 3g/100g or less or should the ingredients have NO sugar listed and NIP be 3g/100g or less.
For example John West Tuna Tempters Sweet Seeded Tuna has 2.4 g of sugars (so is under 3g) and there is sugar listed in the ingredients list. This means they added sugar, but less than 3g/100g. Is this OK, or should I avoid it if there is any added sugar, even if the NIP has sugars at less than 3g/100g?

Jen

Thanks Janelle C!!
So basically, I check the NIP and just make sure the sugars are 3g/100g and under, regardless of whether the ingredients list has sugar in it or not, right?

Janelle C wrote:to a point yes, keep in mind things that contain lactose (any dairy product like milk and yoghurt) these thing will be over the 3g per 100g.  I think for memory David says that dairy is about 4.7g per 100g.

That's right. Yoghurt contains 4.7% of milk sugar which metabolizes as glucose and is therefore OK.

In Sweet Poison  Page 172  indicates that 5-10g per day from 2 pieces of fruit is safe.

Alexandra Bolonja wrote:

Thanks John.

So just double checking - it means that I can't have any other additonal fructose during the day, except the 10g from the fruit?

Hello Alexandra
Just keep the fructose down as far as possible..........I often don't have any fruit for days at a time. I tend to have vegetables, which do have some fructose in them. Even nuts have some fructose, but the fiber in both vegetables and fruit tends to counteract the fructose anyway.

Our bodies make the fructose needed, all by themselves, for the glucose to penetrate the cell walls, so we don't need to feel we HAVE to eat some fructose every day for this purpose.

Ancient man tended to eat fructose when it was available in the Autumn to fatten himself and his animals so they could survive the winter. The fructose was from small fruit and berries and would have tasted pretty sour to us now. Honey would have been very hard to get and a royal treat when it was found and wrested from the bees.
Good luck with all this, you won't regret going fructose free.
cheers
Freda