I thought I had finally found a healthy drink I liked with no artificial sweetness and they had to go and fuck it up

  • ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    It’s a US label and the percents are % of recommended daily intake. So that’s 3% of your daily recommended carbohydrate intake, 6% of your daily recommended intake of sugar, and 12% of your daily recommended intake of “added” sugar. The recommendation is something like, no more than half of your carbs should come from sugar, and no more than half of those should be added during manufacturing (i.e. most of your sugar intake should be from fresh fruit, etc.). So the numbers do line up.

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      7 days ago

      In reality there is no recommended sugar intake. We can do perfectly well with zero grams of sugar every single day for a whole life, without it causing a single health issue.
      So the label remains nonsense.

      There is a recommended intake of vegetables and fruit, but not for sugar. Not by any factual based health measure.