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Added Sugar vs Natural Sugar

MaggieS1979
MaggieS1979 Posts: 5 Member
in Feature Suggestions and Ideas
Please add the ability to track and easily see added sugar vs natural sugar. As everyone knows added sugar is the real enemy and not having an easy way to see how much added sugar vs natural sugar I consume is frustrating. I use an app to make tracking easy. I pay for an app to make them even easier. But the lack of this features has me using my notes app to track the added sugar I consume each meal to ensure I am keeping that number low.
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  • Jean
    Jean Posts: 891 MFP Staff
    Thank you so much for your suggestion on this. I just passed this along to our team to think more about!
  • ClaudiaCA101
    ClaudiaCA101 Posts: 1 Member
    I came to this place to look for help on where or how to check my added sugar, as opposite of the sugar from raw fruit. And thanks to this post, now I know that it doesn’t exist. I totally agree with Maggie, we must count added sugar to keep it under 20grs per day.
  • KareninCanada
    KareninCanada Posts: 962 Member
    It's there as a field when you add a food, but in order to use that you have to actually know the data. I haven’t seen many food labels actually break that down.
  • mspoone
    mspoone Posts: 1 Member
    edited December 2024
    I would also like to add to my request for there to be separation on the tracking between naturally occurring sugars and added sugars.
    Most food labels in the US do include both numbers:
    Total Sugar:
    Added Sugar:
    It would add a very valuable tracking component to the metrics provided.
  • sarahalynn
    sarahalynn Posts: 5 Member
    Same with fats vs healthy fats. They should show seperately in some way!
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,764 Member
    sarahalynn wrote: »
    Same with fats vs healthy fats. They should show seperately in some way!

    I don't understand?

    MFP tracks each of total fat, saturated fat, monounsaturated fat, polyunsaturated fat, trans fat, and cholesterol. We can customize any of our diary columns to include those if they're important to us. Also, we can use the Nutrition section in the phone/tablet version of MFP to see those totals for the day or averages for a week. In the web version of MFP, we can look at a total for each category in the Reports section.

    Sincere questions, since it isn't clear: In what other ways do you want to be able to look at the fats?

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