Sugar?

VenitaSehdev
VenitaSehdev Posts: 8
in Food and Nutrition
Hey Fitness members, I'm slightly confused so thought I'd post. I LOVE fruit and I ADORE Sharon fruit, apples and pears yummy, however I've logged my fruit and it's taken up all my sugar count? Does this mean I can't have anymore? Vegetables have sugar in too (2g) so does that mean I can't have any vegetables tonight? Doesn't sound right haha.

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  • snappled
    snappled Posts: 48
    How much fruit are you eating?
  • chezjuan
    chezjuan Posts: 747 Member
    The sugar number provided by MFP is for added sugars, and is based on the US RDA. MFP does not differentiate between added and naturally occurring sugars, so the number is low.

    If you don't have any medical issues where you need to avoid carbs and sugar, you really don't need to watch the sugar number. It is better to just track overall carbs.

    I personally have removed sugar from my diary main page and track fiber instead.
  • VenitaSehdev
    VenitaSehdev Posts: 8
    Well today I've ate 2 apples, pear and a sharon fruit . Okay I think I too will replace it with fibre :)
  • QuietBloom
    QuietBloom Posts: 5,413 Member
    Disregard the sugar macro. It is only there in case you need to track it for medical reasons.
  • twixlepennie
    twixlepennie Posts: 1,074 Member
    Disregard the sugar macro. It is only there in case you need to track it for medical reasons.

    This.

    Now I need to google what a sharon fruit is :laugh:
  • AlabasterVerve
    AlabasterVerve Posts: 3,171 Member
    The sugar limit is a generous 15% of your total calories; if you're exceeding that limit perhaps your diet would be more balanced if you ate more vegetables than fruit?

    http://myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/1375583-a-message-about-myfitnesspal-s-updated-nutrition-goals
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    Every.

    Day.
  • creativerick
    creativerick Posts: 270 Member
    I don't track sugar separately at all.
  • kgeyser
    kgeyser Posts: 22,505 Member
    I just ignore it and swapped it out for fiber. Just from eating yogurt and some fruit in the morning I had pretty much filled it for the entire day, so the data was useless to me.
  • chezjuan
    chezjuan Posts: 747 Member
    The sugar limit is a generous 15% of your total calories; if you're exceeding that limit perhaps your diet would be more balanced if you ate more vegetables than fruit?

    http://myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/1375583-a-message-about-myfitnesspal-s-updated-nutrition-goals

    I missed that they changed it... probably because I don't track it :laugh:

    Interestingly, I just took a look at my reports and the sugar number didn't update when MFP made the change. It was because I had set my goals manually. I had to go back to set my goals, use "guided" and then it updated the number.

    edit for typo.

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