Fruit and sugar grams

bourbonblu

So I signed up for a premium trial yesterday and at the end of the day I looked at my nutrient stats. It said I should have 48 grams of sugar but I ended up with 79. It was almost all from fruit! Not sure what kind of message this sends and am wondering if this is really a service I want to pay for after my trial is over. For people that use this feature, how do you reconcile this?

TeaBea

Sugar isn't something I track, no medical issues for me. I changed my settings (free) to track fiber instead.

Naturally occurring vs. added sugar is not something you are going to find, at least not until nutrition labels are required to provide this information. Entries here are user added. If it's not on the label you won't see it here.

MikePTY

What exactly is the issue? Fruit has sugar in it. MFP is telling you how much sugar the fruit has in it. It didn't make up the fruit having sugar in it.

If you need to watch sugar for medical reasons, sugar from fruit is still sugar. If you don't need to watch sugar, then it doesn't really matter how much sugar you have if you stsray within your calorie goal.

bourbonblu

My assumption was that MFP put those numbers there as healthy guidelines for us to achieve. Guess I read too much into it. Sorry.

lemurcat2

Is premium different from regular? Regular has a sugar gram number too, it's 15% of total cals. It's based on an assumption about how much veg and fruit people eat, so if you eat more, it's easy to go over the sugar number. MFP can't just track added sugar, since many nutrition labels don't yet have that information and same with so many of the entries in the database.

My view is that it makes more sense to focus on hitting goals like protein, fiber, eating some sources of healthy fats and sufficient veg plus some fruit, and then filling in the remaining cals with whatever you like, although mostly nutrient dense foods is a good idea.

I consider fruit a nutrient dense food, so wouldn't worry about sugar from fruit unless it meant that I wasn't eating sufficient protein, healthy fat, or vegetables.