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According to Action on Sugar, “healthy” fruit-based alternatives to sweets often contain more sugar. According to their list, 80 out of 94 “healthy” alternatives contain more sugar than Haribo Starmix.
We take a look at some of the brands that were included in their report to see just how much sugar was in a recommended portion size - should people just be eating Haribo Starmix instead?
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Having said that, perhaps rather than being marketed as healthy snacks, they should be marketed as (potential) hypo treatments.
It’s not the first time that Action on Sugar has uncovered the shocking sugar content of various foods. Back in March, they found that some breakfast cereals contained 39g of sugar per 100g.
That said, there are different kinds of sugar, and these healthy snacks have much less added sugar, which is the stuff that people really try to avoid.
It’s more a question of expectation; Action on Sugar are pointing these things out because parents expect the overall sugar content to be lower than Haribo.
Fruit also contains a lot of sugar, but we know that. We eat it anyway, because it offers a lot of vitamins. We try to avoid fruit juice because it contains more sugar than whole fruit, but no more vitamins.
A very popular topic on the Diabetes Forum is Forbidden Fruits:
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But all the information about sugar is baffling at the best of times. Did you know, for example, that there is a different form of sugar that tastes identical but, because of the way it’s metabolised, won’t spike your blood glucose levels? There is, but you can’t have it. It’s called tagatose.
Sadly, the caveat is that tagatose is 50% more expensive than gold. |
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We can’t talk about sugar without our minds drifting to chocolate. That’s why we were delighted to hear a few months ago that a small amount of chocolate can enhance a low-carb diet. It was the news we were all waiting for, right?
Well, not exactly. Turns out that the study was sort of a hoax, an attempt by a science journalist to point out all the flaws in the way scientific studies are reported.
The study did suggest that chocolate enhances a low-carb diet, but the study was so small, and was testing for so many things, that they were bound to “prove” something bizarre like that.
But the news sources didn’t really look into the details; it was too juicy a headline to miss. It was this juicy-headline obsession that the journalist was criticising all along.
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