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Added Sugars & a Powerful Visual Exercise
In today’s lesson, “Added Sugars & a Powerful Visual Exercise”, from the course ‘Intro to Reading Food Labels‘, we focus on something tricky: added sugars.
Added sugars are anything sweet added during processing — even natural ones like honey or maple syrup. Since 2020, labels show exactly how much added sugar is in a product, which helps you see what’s really in your food.
One big myth this lesson clears up: “No sugar added” doesn’t mean low sugar. Many products still have a lot of naturally occurring sugar, like fruit in smoothies.
Here’s a fun way to see it clearly: convert grams of sugar into teaspoons (1 tsp = 4g). That smoothie with 49g of sugar? That’s 12¼ teaspoons in one bottle! Doing this exercise really makes you notice how much sugar is in everyday foods — and it’s especially eye-opening for kids.
🎥 Check out the full course to learn how to spot added sugars, read labels easily, and try this visual exercise at home!
