• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

Michelle's blog

Food allergy and food intolerance, freefrom foods, electrosensitivity, this and that...

  • Home
  • Blog
  • About
  • FreeFrom Food Awards
  • Foods Matter
  • Walks & Gardens
  • Salon Music
  • Home
  • Blog
  • About
  • FreeFrom Food Awards
  • Foods Matter
  • Walks & Gardens
  • Salon Music

How much sugar do you eat?

16/08/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Maybe not a lot but, if you are wondering, maybe you should cast your eye over Medical News Today’s guideline amounts here. It is all very approximate as they do talk about the amount of sugar in a chocolate chip muffin – what size muffin? what ingredients?….

But it does give you a sort of handle – and some of the most alarming amounts will be accurate as they will have taken them off the pack. So, of your absolute maximum of 13 teaspoons of sugar a day (which already seems like about twice too much but that is what MNT’s ‘nutritionists’ say), one standard can of CocaCola will have used up 7 teaspoons, only exceeded by a can of Red Bull which will use up 7.5 teaspoons….

And as for the breakfast cereals…. Bearing in mind that these are US cereals rather than UK ones – the aboslute corker is Honey Smacks at 14 teaspoons of sugar per 100grams! Next up, Fruit Loops at 10.6 and Lucky Charms at 9. Come back Cheerios – at 1.1 teaspoons all is forgiven!!cheerios

 

Category: Food, NutritionTag: amount of sugar in coca cola, amount of sugar in Red Bull, maximum amount of sugar for daily consumption, Medical News Today, sugar, sugar consumption in the US, sugar in breakfast cereals, sugar in Cheerios, sugar in Fruit Loops, sugar in Honey Smacks, sugar in Lucky Charms

Previous Post: « Ingredients lists
Next Post: Beware manufacturer ‘freefrom’ lists »

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Recent Posts

  • Colliding with a new reality – the hazards of low vision
  • Call for adult allergy sufferers
  • The vegan/allergy labelling issue
  • A gluten free Christmas just could be delicious – not a penance!
  • A food fad won’t kill you – an allergy will

Search this blog

ARCHIVES

Blogroll

  • Allergy Insight
  • Better brains, naturally
  • For Ever FreeFrom
  • Free From (gluten)
  • Freefrom Food Awards
  • Gluten-free Mrs D
  • Natural Health Worldwide
  • Pure Health Clinic
  • Skins Matter
  • The Helminthic Therapy Wiki
  • Truly Gluten Free
  • What Allergy?

TOPICS

A food fad won’t kill you – an allergy will

There has been a predictable outcry in the allergy world this week’s in response to Rachel Johnson’s piece in Thursday’s Evening Standard on ‘dietary requirements’ and food fads. Being charitable, I am assuming that she has never suffered from or lived with someone with a food allergy. However, I do have some sympathy with her …

Bioplastics – a solution or part of the problem?

Everyday Plastic is a social enterprise group using accessible learning and publicity campaigns to reduce the amount of plastics used daily in our society. It was founded by its current director Daniel Webb who, having moved to Margate in Kent in 2016, was horrified to discover that there were no plastic recycling options on offer.  …

FreeFrom Christmas Awards – the Winners

Since they were launched two years ago the FreeFrom Christmas Awards have been a great success. And how lucky are ‘freefrom-ers’ these days!  From Advent calendars to gifts, party food to Christmas dinner, there is no longer any need for them to miss out. Indeed, the whole family can happily eat freefrom and never know …

Do not extradite Julian Assange to the US

Julian Assange is being sought by the current US administration for publishing US government documents which exposed war crimes and human rights abuses. The politically motivated charges represent an unprecedented attack on press freedom and the public’s right to know – seeking to criminalise basic journalistic activity. Assange is facing a 175-year sentence for publishing …

What to believe – applying critical thought

For the average citizen evaluating the claims made for cure all – or even improve all – health products and procedures has always been difficult. Not only is it an area in which we have minimal expertise but most of us have a vested interest in finding a miracle intervention that will solve our health …

Could wireless monitoring devices be killing racehorses?

Regular readers may remember that back in August last year I alerted you to a posting on Arthur Firstenberg’s Cellphone Task Force site about phone masts and bird flu. Could there be a connection between the fact that the two wildlife sites in Holland and Northern France which had suffered catastrophic bird flu deaths were …

Site Footer

Copyright © 2025 · Michelle's Blog · Michelle Berridale Johnson · Site design by DigitalJen·