Hi all, with working out sugar in food I am a bit confused! My understanding from reading book is 10 g no more per day. However Dave also talks about 5 percent per 100g. My example is the carman fruit free bar, what is my sugar count? Also are strawberries okay? Thanks
My understanding, from reading SP & SPQP is that you need about 10g per day of fructose and you can get that from two pieces of fruit. It helps glucose molecules to penetrate the cell walls.
Once you appetite-control system is working properly you can eat as much glucose-in-food as you want. Your body will tell you when you have had enough and you wan't want to eat any more.
Check the listings in SPQP page 108. And eating the whole fruit, including the fibre, reduces the effect of the fructose. So presumably you can eat a bit more than the 10g.
The easy way is to read the labels. Anything more than 10% "sugars" should be avoided. "Sugars" usually means sucrose (cane sugar) but can also mean lactose as in the case of yoghurts, cheese etc. They're OK up to about 5% which is lactose and this is converted to glucose in the body. So 7% is your limit here.
Remember that cane sugar (sucrose) is 50% fructose. "5% per 100g" is a bit of a mixture - 5g per 100g is 5%
Watch out for "low fat" products . . the flavour is removed with the fat and then replaced with sugar and salt.
