Craig Wilkin wrote:say 3g per 100g, to my reckoning is 3%, say 10g per 100 will be 10%, same if it is in mls.

Hi Craig
Another person new to the counting of sugars in foods and also confused after reading the books, do you take the figure in the right hand column for sugars on the nutrional panel and halve it to get to the 3gms figure?, or do you mean that rhs figure should be 3gms. 

Marg

So when they say 10g of fructose per day, same as in 2 pieces of fruit, does that mean if you don't have fruit or if you do have fruit ie does that mean the 10g is inclusive or exclusive of the fruit?  That's why I've never added up my fructose, because I don't understand what they mean by that.

Brian Bird wrote:

Sylvia Liney wrote:Kirsty, just look at the Nutritional Panel, on the far right is the 'per 100 gram' listings. This is what you should be looking at. It will say, on the left, sugars, follow to the last column, and it will say, eg 10.8 g (or mls if a liquid), That means it is 10.8% of the total. Ie the whole product is 10.8% sugar. Halve that, then you know it's got 5.4% fructose. So, if the amount in the column on the far right is above 6g, then don't buy it, unless you then look at the ingredients & find that some of it is lactose. You then have to work it out yourself.

Hope this helps a bit.

I do wish all you newbies a lot of luck. You can do it, it does get better as you go along, just don't obsess about it all, it is not a diet, it's a way of life. And you should be able to stay on it the rest of your life.

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Hi Sylvia

I'm very new and very confused....when you get the rhs figure for sugar on the nutritional panel do you halve that to get the true sugar content...ie if the figure is 6 does that mean the safe sugar count is 3

many thanks for all your help

Margaret