Sugar grams/carbohydrates

cooldonna1

I love being accountable and My Fitness Pal app really helps! But is anyone else annoyed that the sugar grams get counted twice in the sugar AND carbohydrates count?
Wouldn't it be great to have only added sugars counted as sugar and let carbohydrates include natural sugars within foods? It's quite unhelpful the way it is.

seska422

Sugars aren't counted twice. If it says 20 grams of total carbs and 12 of those are sugar, then 12 of the total grams are sugar and 8 of the total grams are other-than-sugar.



Sugar is a subheading under Total Carbohydrate. Subheadings are already included in the heading numbers. For example, this nutrition facts graphic shows a food with 14 grams of Total Fat and 9 of those grams are Saturated Fat.

There is currently no way to know from the labels how many of the sugars are added. The US labels are supposed to be including that info soon but companies are lobbying for exceptions.

cooldonna1

Thank you!

CyberTone

Even when the new FDA Nutrition Facts label includes Added Sugars separately, the additional information is not going to provide the information most consumers would assume.

For example, under the new guidelines, a bottle of pure honey would list no Added Sugars, because the only ingredient is honey. However, if a manufacturer of yogurt adds honey to the yogurt as a sweetener, the full amount of honey added would be listed on the yogurt Nutrition Facts label as Added Sugars.