Fed Up Movie - hidden sugars

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  • candylilacs
    candylilacs Posts: 614 Member
    I eat a salad with peanut dressing. It's a) 2 tbsp (2g of sugar, 3 carb) or b) 2 tbsp (8 g of sugar, 9 carb) or c)2 tbsp (10 g of sugar and 11 carbs). I doubt if a person could tell the difference.
  • ceiswyn
    ceiswyn Posts: 2,256 Member
    I go over my sugar MFP goal a lot.

    Because I eat a lot of fruit.

    It's the sugar in 'healthy' things that people often find surprising; if I eat three huge pears in a day (which I quite often do, because I like pears and the ones we get delivered at work are massive) then I've had sugar equivalent to two doughnuts. And sugar is sugar.

    Of course, the doughnuts are more fattening. But that's nothing to do with the sugar, it's because they're full of fat. And that's the same for chocolate and cake and most other foods that are demonised for their sugar content as well.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    Lol, I scoff at people blaming Asian food for weight gain. The majority of Asians in the world don't have obesity issues eating their own food. Yes, the sauces included.

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    Yes, without even trying, my ex lost 30-40 pounds during the 3 years he lived in Thailand, eating mostly Thai food.

    But Asian American food is another story ;)
  • Katmary71
    Katmary71 Posts: 7,190 Member
    kshama2001 wrote: »

    Yes, without even trying, my ex lost 30-40 pounds during the 3 years he lived in Thailand, eating mostly Thai food.

    But Asian American food is another story ;)

    I was thinking the same thing about American Asian food. Last time I went out to dinner two choices my family picked were honey walnut prawns and orange chicken. They have to have as much calories as the cake the waiter brought me for my birthday.
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
    I wonder if by 80 grams of sugar what they consider a meal includes a huge milkshake and a big slice of cake, in which case it's anything but hidden sugar.
  • lemurcat2
    lemurcat2 Posts: 7,887 Member
    psychod787 wrote: »
    Having worked in the back of the house at several mom and pop restaurants, it's not added sugars that worry me. It's the added fats. Fat improves mouth feel, increases palatablility, and caloric density. Now, I cant speak for big chains, but for us, added sugars were not really that high. Of course, we made most of our food from scratch.

    Yeah, this rings more true for me.

    I primarily go to local non-chain type places, and when I used to try to accurately log restaurant meals, I'd always add extra butter (or olive oil, depending on the type of restaurant) even if I didn't notice it being extra oily or buttery, since I know they do use more than I would at home. Way more likely than tons of extra cals coming from unnoticed sugar, IMO.
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