Sugar in ingredients but not in 0g in nutrition label

nespoIa
nespoIa Posts: 8 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
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I’m trying to cut out processed food that has added sugars. I noticed my mayo has sugar in the ingredient list, but not in the nutrition info. Does that mean that the amount of sugar seems negligible?

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  • fuzzylop72
    fuzzylop72 Posts: 651 Member
    If it's less than 0.5g per serving, they can report 0 (at least in the us, but I suspect that's probably true of most countries labeling laws).
  • Carlos_421
    Carlos_421 Posts: 5,132 Member
    fuzzylop72 wrote: »
    If it's less than 0.5g per serving, they can report 0 (at least in the us, but I suspect that's probably true of most countries labeling laws).

    Which is less that 2 calories of sugar. So yeah, negligible.
  • vingogly
    vingogly Posts: 1,787 Member
    fuzzylop72 wrote: »
    If it's less than 0.5g per serving, they can report 0 (at least in the us, but I suspect that's probably true of most countries labeling laws).

    Since sugar appears in the list between salt and spices, there's not very much in a serving - and a whole serving of the product is only 1Tb. At those levels, the number of calories fits into what is called in statistics "noise".
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