Is 18grams of sugar a lot in food?

Answer 1

Carbohydrates, which includes sugar should make up about 45% of your diet. (This would be normal and moderate.) If you eat 2000 calories a day that means 225g of carbohydrates total, if you eat 2500 calories a day that means 281g of total carbohydrates. That is actually I think smaller than the current standard that you see on most food labels which when I calculate it come up with 314g as the recommended total carb. What I gave you before though is a ratio of carb-fat-protein that is moderate and (I think) healthy which would give 45% carb, 30% protein, and 25% fats. So one 2000 cal/day that is 225g carb/150g protein/55g fat on 2500cal/day that is 281g carb/187protein/69g fat. There is no actual recomendation for sugar perse besides minimize. In my opinion however, most is really the larger ratios because all carbohydrates have 4cal/gram, all protein has 4cal/gram and all fats have 9cal/gram.

Answer 2

Well, this depends on the weight of the food altogether. It is easier to compare whether or not the sugar level in food is high when it is expressed as a percentage of the total weight.

For example, if the item of food weighed 250g, then 18g of sugar would be approxamately 7% of the food. Compared to many other foods which contain higher levels of sugar per 100g, this does not seem to be a great amount.

Answer 3

Definitely not! In some yogurts they consider "healthy" there are 30 or more grams. Of course it depends on the serving size but unless the serving size is less than 5 grams, that's certainly not a lot of sugar! :)

Answer 4

Yeah it is alot. If its that many. If you know how much oz is in it youll know.

Like 16 oz is a pound. So check to oz to see

Answer 5

40 g in a day

Answer 6

Yes