What means Sugar

ValentinNiculescu
ValentinNiculescu Posts: 7 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Hello,

What means Sugar for fitnesspal? All sweets? Dextroza, Maltodextrine, fructose, sucrose, glucose? All theese?

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  • KarlynKeto
    KarlynKeto Posts: 323 Member
    It's about what is listed on the food labels, which is where they gather the data. But yes, there are over 100 names for sugar! They all should count.
  • Orphia
    Orphia Posts: 7,097 Member
    I just ignore the sugar limit on MFP. I have no medical reason to worry about it.

    Lots of MFP users edit their settings to remove the sugar category completely and still lose weight healthily.
  • ValentinNiculescu
    ValentinNiculescu Posts: 7 Member
    Aha, ok, thanks!
  • Yi5hedr3
    Yi5hedr3 Posts: 2,696 Member
    It's irrelevant. All Carbs are sugar. Keep carbs under 100 grams/day.
  • MelaniaTrump
    MelaniaTrump Posts: 2,694 Member
    If you have cholesterol or pre-diabetes problems, tracking sugar can be beneficial.
    Over-consumption can foul up the numbers.
  • DAM5412
    DAM5412 Posts: 660 Member
    MFP counts sugar as food additives and what's in fruits and vegetables. While many people will advocate that "sugar is not evil", there's just as many who will tell you the opposite. The only one who knows how it will/does affect you, your health and fitness goals is YOU. So having access to the data in MFP to see how much you consume, compare it to your daily energy and well being and against your overall goals, is pretty important. Best of luck.
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    KarlynKeto wrote: »
    It's about what is listed on the food labels, which is where they gather the data. But yes, there are over 100 names for sugar! They all should count.

    For whole foods it is the amount of sugar found in the food regardless of the type of sugar.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    ValentinNiculescu wrote: »
    Hello,

    What means Sugar for fitnesspal? All sweets? Dextroza, Maltodextrine, fructose, sucrose, glucose? All theese?

    Anything that's on the Nutrition label under sugar. Not malto-dextrin, that's a modified starch so is a carbohydrate but not a sugar,

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