This is how much sugar you are [possibly] eating.

I really need to quit chugging ragu... That's so much sugar.

How do we break the habit?

I wouldn't recommend consuming an entire jar of pasta sauce regardless of sugar content, it's just not economical.

Always check the labels for the ingredient list. The order of ingredients corresponds to how much of each ingredient there is.

When your "diet yogurt" has more sugar than milk ingredients, its not diet yogurt.

These companies want to load every packaged food with sugar. They need to be regulated.

If you use canned pasta sauce instead of making your own: screw these brands. Newman's Own is way better than all of these and is often cheaper. Bonus: 0 added sugar.

I love how none of these comments account for fiber, something you won't get from granulated sugar but which you will absolutely get from any actual fruit, which at least one of these yogurts actually references in its label.

Fiber is not only good for you on its own for your gut health but will slow the rate of absorption of sugars, preventing sugar crashes and allowing your body to make use of the carbohydrates over time. It affects the glycemic index and is why real whole wheat/grain bread doesn't give you a sugar crash.

Source: The ability to read and the knowledge of the existence of diabetes

This is why I make my pasta sauce from scratch. Plus it tastes way better letting the natural sugars in the tomato get all roasty toasty.

Shout-out to Rao's for actually not having a whole lot of sugar and being genuinely one of the best pasta sauces you can get in a jar. Add a little Tabasco sauce and red wine and let that simmer for an hour or so and it's perfection.

I might advise not downing an entire pound-and-a-half jar of spaghetti sauce in one go.

What is this referring to Natural sugar or added sugar? Normally the yoghurt doesn't have added sugars beyond what were presswnt are in the milk originally.

For sauces you can easily read the labels and find which ones contain added sugar, at least in europ it's mandatory listing that.

Hmm that's super interesting.

Interesting, Rao's became my favorite brand of jar sauce once I tried them. I wonder if the difference is mostly the sugar content. Expensive though.

This is why I make my own fresh tomato sauce. A single pound/half kilo of ripe tomatoes and about 15 minutes, you can have a fresh pasta sauce at home.

Them little old Italian Grandmothers ain't wasting all day to slow cook a tomato sauce. Unless they want to show off. They got lemoncello to make and drink.......

Sugar is half bad, half good: the glucose part causes no harm and whole body can use it. The fructose part on otherhand is bad and has to/can only be processed by the liver first.

Damn, that's a lot!

takes another swig of Prego

I don't eat any of those. I definitely eat a lot of stuff that's bad for me, but I've been eating less on purpose and walking more with my dog. I've lost a lot of weight because of it

Have I lost track of what memes are? Or is it the children who are wrong?

If you eat Siggis yogurt, there is a full-fat option with barely any sugar that is way, way, better. I don't typically like yogurt, but like it. Add honey if needed.

I happen to be eating it right now.

And don't forget bread. So much sugar in the US..

That seems about right for sugar contents for such foods, especially since the yogurts have berries in them. I dont quite get what point is getting made, most fruits and berries have a good bit of sugar in them. There isnt anything inately bad about sugar, maybe when its high fructose corn zyrup but thats kinda its own thing. Also tomatoes are a berry.

To be fair, if you make pasta sauce from scratch you're going to be using a fair amount of sugar to balance the acidity of your tomatoes, so I don't find pasta sauce a useful demonstration.

But you're still making a good point. Once you start making stuff yourself, you really see what isn't required.

You're perfectly right. And it's not just about energy, which there is a lot of in oils and proteins too. In nature, the sweetest things you'll get are different kinds of fruit - all packed full of vitamins, antioxidants, fiber and whatnot. And they're seasonal, so if you don't eat them right away, you're going to have to wait another year. So our taste makes us eat as much as we can. Sugar, of cours, is cheating.

(I just happen to be on my way to buy some pastries.)

Pretty much any fruit flavoured food that is not artificial will contain sugar from the fruit juice. But most companies add sugar anyway.

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I've heard of one of those brands but have never tried it myself (Chobani) and who impregnated the tomato sauce? 🤨

Fage is definitely my favorite yogurt. I'm always like "how the fuck is this so God damn good? It has virtually no sugar or anything added"

Also in case you didnt know, for many reduced fat items they just end up adding more sugar.

Is that added sugar, or sugar from the other ingredients?

Oh that's why yoplait is so fucking good

Instead of sweet cereals, I switched to plain cereals and then add packets of sugar. Yes, it costs more for sugar packets than a bag of sugar, but I would end up rounding over a spoonful.

Anyway, each sugar packet is 2.5 g. At 3 packets, on a bad day when I'm eating my frustration, that's way plenty. And that's only 7.5 g of sugar. The sweet cereals have at least 20 extra g of sugar. Yikes!

Check out how much sugar they put into frozen pizza. It's basically a sweet.

Explains part of the reason why Rao's tastes better than those other brands. I wish it had no sugar though.

Make your own yogurt! It's the best

And this applies to salt as well to a lesser extent.

Kinda misrepresentative using granulated sugar. Not all sugar is the same, nor does it have the same effect in your body.

Right, bad healthcare => no pressure to make people' lives healthier. I guess that's why you still don't have a less sugar novement?

Damn and I think my sauce is too sweet if I even add a whole tablespoon.

Both yogurt and pasta sauce are extremely easy to make from scratch, and sugar doesn't belong as an ingredient in either. Yogurt literally makes itself. Stop buying processed foods that are designed by teams of people to be addictive?

This is why I started making a lot of my own things. There are lots of options in the store for some items where you can get something without sugar that didn't need it. But then there's things like mayonnaise... Let me tell you that mayonnaise doesn't need any sugar and most brands that don't have sugar are like $11 for an 8oz jar. So I started making it myself at home. I also started making bread which later turned into a hobby, but now I can't eat the store bread because it's too sweet. I even make my own jam now and I know what you're gonna say "but jam is like... mostly sugar", but I'll have you know that jam tastes WAY better with half the sugar that it's typically made with. It's an art form to get it thick without adding more sugar, but it's worth it. Looking back, I know most people can't make all this shit and it's really sad that people can't buy things with less sugar at the store without paying an arm and a leg. It really says a lot about our society that this is true.

Pretty bold to assume I'm not a hunter gatherer

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Did you use the calories or the grams of sugar to determine the amount?

i guarantee im not eating any of that sugar

Oh yeah - I've had to start watching my carbohydrate intake for health reasons and it's amazing just how much of that stuff is in processed food: for example "American Style Onion Rings (frozen)" from Lidl is over 40% carbohydrates - so basically the 450g pack of it has 180g of sugars and the kind of stuff your digestive system will turn into sugars.

One would think it would be only starchy foods (like bread, pasta, rice and such) and cakes and sweets that have lots of it, but no, most processed food is loaded with carbohydrates, often already directly as sugars, probably because the cheapest ingredient to bulk it up is flour.

Mind you, lots of natural or lightly processed foods have quite a bit of it - for example natural yoghurt with nothing added has maybe 6% of carbohydrates (tough yoghurt with fruit is way worse, since the adding of fruit is generally mixing it with fruit jam which has a lot of sugar) and most fruits have quite a bit of sugar (for example, common varieties of apple have about 14% of sugar - so your run of the mill apple comes with 1 spoonful of sugar included - and some varieties have a lot more) which is why there's this funny paradox that natural fruit juice has a lot more sugar in it than the same amount of Coca-Cola (since when you make the fruit juice you throw away the fiber and most of the protein leaving a much higher percentage of sugar than originally).

Generally, the kind of stuff that has almost no carbohydrates are veggies, like lettuce or broccoli.

Always spend the extra buck or two for the better sauces. Actually I've started making a mean meat sauce as I found a fantastic place to get red bell peppers (for a dollar more but huge difference); their sweetmess easily offsets the acidity of the tomatoes (although better sauces use better tomatoes or cook longer). Also don't overcook your garlic, it's sweetest when it's less cooked.

Oh, I didn't know there was a reduced sugar Ragu.

Everyone is going to die.

You can sit in the corner of a padded room and live off protein supplements to maximize your chances of staving off the inevitable by a few extra years, usually the worst ones anyway according to most that get there always volunteering "don't get old" safely existing, or you can live.

No wrong answers, it's a personal choice. Just know you're almost certainly filled with life shortening microplastics regardless of your decision.

American issues

I always find it interesting that our ancestors were for the most part fruitarians (fruits, grasses) about 3.5 million years ago. As we evolved, we expanded our diets to include vegetables, meats, and grains, leading to a better balanced diet, which is good especially considering we don't hunt and gather like they once did.

Pretty much any food you buy that comes from a box or a jar is going to be littered with sugar.

If you want to cut sugar out of your diet you need to start eating whole food that you prepare yourself.

Most people are too lazy for this so they scarf down processed foods that slowly kill them.

Try making tomato sauce without sugar. Get back to me when you’ve tasted your horror.