What are the foods with the highest sugar content? Find out which foods provide a lot of sugar, whose consumption would not be recommended on a regular basis.
The white sugar (also known by the name of refined sugar) becomes one of the most common sweetener options when providing a sweet foods, desserts or drinks flavor. For example, it tends to be a fairly common product when we have a coffee with milk, a tea, an infusion or any other bitter drink.
Although it is a very common sweetener option in many houses, did you know that its consumption is not recommended or advisable at all? It is enough to take a look at the health effects of white sugar consumption to realize its actually negative effects: it can cause a lack of B vitamins and calcium, increases the risk of overweight and obesity, favors an increase in cholesterol and triglycerides, it alters the intestinal flora, and together with a diet low in fiber it can increase the risk of cancer, diabetes, gallstones and Crohn’s disease.
In addition to replacing white sugar with other healthier sweetening options (such as honey or brown sugar from whole cane), we also find sugar in certain foods. Here are the 5 foods with the highest sugar content:
- Candies and sweets: both sweets and other types of sweets and sweets, since 98% of its composition is sugar.
- Soluble cocoa: it is the cocoa powder that we add to milk. Although it depends on the brands, the amount of sugar reaches 70%.
- Jams: although healthy because they are made with fruits, their sugar content tends to be very high. In fact, out of 100 grams of sugar, 55 is sugar.
- Dried dates and raisins: Like jams, they are healthy foods. However, they have a very high sugar content.
- Condensed milk: although there are options with less sugar content such as skimmed condensed milk, they provide around 55% sugar.
