Sugar...why doesn’t MFP know the difference?

"Sugar...why doesn’t MFP know the difference?

MFP doesn't know the difference because MFP isn't a conscious being with your own personal tastes and predilictions and beliefs. It is a calculator that is user operated tacked on to a database that is user generated. It doesn't make decisions, you do. It also doesn't know the difference because objectively speaking there is no actual difference between the fructose derived from eating some grapes and the fructose derived from ingesting a soda flavored with high fructose corn syrup. Fructose is fructose as far as the science, the molecule and your body are concerned and therefore MFP has no basis in which to distinguish the two. If you personally feel that they are different and wish to track them separately you can attempt to do so but I'm not sure what benefit you would get out of doing that.

The reason that MFP allows you to track sugar and have it turn red if it goes above a certain amount is as an aid to diabetics. If you aren't diabetic then you can probably just go ahead and toggle that off. Not sure why MFP has it on by default to be honest.