Sugar Intake

mamabear1114

So, every morning I make a fruit smoothie with strawberries, blueberries, and bananas. I feel good about eating fruit instead of a processed sugary breakfast. However, I am started to get discouraged because my smoothie blows the cap off my sugar limit for the day. Does anyone else have this problem? Is it something I need to worry about or change, or should I just ignore it??

TimothyFish

Sugar is sugar no matter where it comes from.

malibu927

Unless you have a medical reason to watch your sugar intake, it's fine

kgeyser

mamabear1114 wrote: »

So, every morning I make a fruit smoothie with strawberries, blueberries, and bananas. I feel good about eating fruit instead of a processed sugary breakfast. However, I am started to get discouraged because my smoothie blows the cap off my sugar limit for the day. Does anyone else have this problem? Is it something I need to worry about or change, or should I just ignore it??

Here's the deal with MFP sugar tracking: The tool tracks all sugars regardless of where they come from. It's handy for those with medical conditions, but as it exists now, it isn't very useful for anyone else.

Until the food labels include the separation of added and natural sugars, the MFP tracker isn't going to be able to do that. Most people who are monitoring sugar outside a medical condition are looking at added sugars, so if you are trying to keep those in check, tracking sugar on MFP is not going to be helpful right now.

Your choices are basically to ignore the sugar numbers as they are, or change your tracking options to track something else instead. Since you're making an effort to include more fruit in your diet, perhaps tracking fiber might be a better option as a goal.

mamabear1114

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Here's the deal with MFP sugar tracking: The tool tracks all sugars regardless of where they come from. It's handy for those with medical conditions, but as it exists now, it isn't very useful for anyone else.

Until the food labels include the separation of added and natural sugars, the MFP tracker isn't going to be able to do that. Most people who are monitoring sugar outside a medical condition are looking at added sugars, so if you are trying to keep those in check, tracking sugar on MFP is not going to be helpful right now.

Your choices are basically to ignore the sugar numbers as they are, or change your tracking options to track something else instead. Since you're making an effort to include more fruit in your diet, perhaps tracking fiber might be a better option as a goal.[/quote]

Thank you! I didn't know all that. That helps me a lot!