Recommended daily grams of sugar for women... too high on my fitness pal

PersistenceMimi

The health organizations recommend to use 24 daily grams of added sugar each day for women.
They don't include natural sugar which is in fresh fruits.
My fitness pal recommendations for me is 64 daily grams of sugar.
Too high,
Unless they assume that I will eat fruit, and they add the natural sugar from fresh fruit to my daily recommendation, and that's why it is so high.

Is there a way for me to change it from 64 grams daily to 24 grams of sugar daily?
I will appreciate your answers
Thank you

Jelaan

My home ..... goals ..... micronutrient settings. Then you can change your daily sugar to whatever you want.

rheddmobile

Natural sugars are included in the total on MFP. Nutritional information in the database doesn’t usually separate out added sugars, so an entry for just added sugars wouldn’t work properly.

PersistenceMimi

Thank you Jelaan and Rheddmobile for answering so quickly.
I understand now why the sugar grams is so high, and I also made two changes that suits me better.

lemurcat2

Of course they assume you will eat healthful foods like veg and fruit which contain sugar. I'm often over 24 g of sugar from veg alone, so for me that would be a terribly low goal.

I eyeball to see if I'm getting surprising amounts of added sugar, but I haven't see that yet (I cook mostly from whole foods, so it's not really a concern).