![]() If you can – sugar is best avoided in your cooking and baking (as well as your shopping). And if you like the fresh pasta sauce from the chilled section at the supermarket, you should know that half a 340g tub of Leggo’s Fresh Napoli Tomato Pasta Sauce contains 8.3g of sugar – which is exactly the same amount of sugar as a Tim Tam.The low fat version has more sugar than the full fat coleslaw – this is quite common as the reduction in fat also compromises the flavour – so sugar is added to put some taste back in. Woolworths Low Fat Coleslaw contains 11.5g of sugar per single serve 134g tub. Even savoury items aren’t free of sugar.You’re much better off sticking to natural or Greek yoghurt instead. That’s almost 7 tsp of sugar in one single serve tub. Love to snack on flavoured yoghurts? You may be alarmed to see that a Ski D’lite Peach Melba Yoghurt contains 27.2g per 200g tub.Crunchy Nut Cornflakes contain 9.5g per 30g serve – and that’s assuming that you stick to the recommended 2/3 cup serving. Cereal itself is not always a better option either (unless you opt for a homemade porridge or homemade bircher muesli).So you might think that a muesli bar or cereal bar would be a good option for a healthy snack? You might be surprised to learn that a Kellogg’s Fruit and Nut Special K Bar contains 9.3g of sugar per 28g bar (that’s more than 2 tsp per bar).How do these ‘healthy’ foods compare on their sugar content? Today we delve in and have a look at some popular grocery items and see how their sugar content for a standard serve stacks up against the sugary Aussie icon – the Tim Tam.Ī standard Tim Tam contains 8.3g of sugar per biscuit – that’s around 2 teaspoons. In fact, too much added sugar consumption has also been linked to issues with weight, blood pressure, depression and diabetes.Īnd it’s not just the obvious places like cakes and biscuits that you have to be mindful of sugar.Įven some foods and drinks that market themselves as being healthy are often packed with the stuff, which means that if you are trying to eat well and lose weight while following a weight loss plan, you need to be extra vigilant. ![]() Added sugars in foods and drinks provide no nutritional benefit and just add to the total calories which is bad for health as well as not good for your weight loss plan and weight loss goals. ![]()
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