Added sugar?

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readeraz
readeraz Posts: 2 Member
in Food and Nutrition

NI does not show added sugar in the food diary. Will it be added soon? Is is part of the premium plan? I am supposed to countt Added Sugar.
Thanks!

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,188 Member
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    Added sugar is not currently totaled up in premium MFP, no different from free MFP in that regard.

    Generally, MFP staff don't read all the posts in the Community. The participants are just regular users like you. We don't have any more insight into what MFP will add/change, or when, than you have yourself.

    If you want to put your recommendations in an area that MFP staff do read and sometimes respond to, one place you could post it is here:

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/categories/feature-suggestions-and-ideas

    There are already several of the same general suggestions there that you could up-vote, too.

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  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,740 Member

    That's a tough ask. There's over 50 types of added sugars that can be found in processed foods buried within ingredient lists and recipes etc and extracting that data is not easy and suspect that will be left up to the individual, but that's just a guess.

    People in the US consume just over a 1 lb a week of added sugars and the USDA recommended less than 10% which works out to about 3/4 of a pound so a little less, and that's the maximum amount. I wish you luck in that procedure.

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