Shocking Sugar Content of Common Food Products
Most of us know that foods like doughnuts, ice cream, cakes and cookies are high in processed sugars. These items should be eaten sparingly (if at all) since eating too much sugar contributes to obesity and diabetes. What many of us don’t know is that a vast array of modern processed foods actually contain more sugar than any of the dessert items listed above.
The following is a list of some commonly eaten foods and their sugar content.
(Taken from www.mercola.com)
- Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut — 10 grams
- Ben & Jerry’s vanilla ice cream — 16 grams
- Starbucks caffè latte grande (16 oz) — 17 grams
- Subway 6″ sweet onion teriyaki chicken sandwich — 17 grams
- Yoplait original yogurt — 27 grams
- Vitamin Water (20 oz bottle) — 33 g
- Oscar Mayer Lunchables crackers, turkey & American cheese — 36 grams
- Coca-Cola Classic 12 oz can — 39 grams
- California Pizza Kitchen Thai chicken salad — 45 g
- Jamba Juice blackberry bliss 16 oz — 49 g
- Odwalla SuperFood 450 ml bottle — 50 g
- Starbucks caffe vanilla frappuccino grande (16 oz) — 58 g
According to Dr. Mercola:
“This outrageously excessive sugar consumption has caused people’s appetite regulation system to go awry. Leptin, the hormone responsible for satiety, isn’t working properly anymore in a majority of people.
It has now become clear that limiting sugar – and fructose in particular — in your diet is a key to longevity for a number of reasons.
For example, according to Dr. Richard Johnson, author of The Sugar Fix, about 25 percent of all Americans consume over ½ a pound of added sugars a day, and this statistic dovetails nicely with the statistics showing that one in four Americans is either pre-diabetic or has type 2 diabetes.
Diabetics have, on average, a reduced lifespan of about 15 years.”
To read the rest of Dr. Mercola’s article and learn more about the devastating effects processed sugar, please follow the link below.