The AHA (American Heart Association) recommends no more than 6 teaspoons (2 tablespoons or 1/8 cup) of added sugar per day. That's about 24g. That would not include sugars in produce.
Some would recommend limiting sugars from fruit also. There's growing evidence about fructose and metabolic syndrome. I'm not yet convinced I need to limit fruit (within reason) if it's not causing me a problem. What "within reason" means is hard to define!
One medium banana has about 14g sugar. With 91g sugar daily from, say, fruits, that would be about 6 1/2 bananas, which does seem a bit much. And that's one of the sweeter fruits.
10 baby carrots have about 5g of sugar, so even with the sweeter/starchier veggies, it would take a lot to get to 91g of sugar a day.
Are you counting all carbs as sugar? If the label only lists total carbs and fiber, the difference is not the same thing as sugar, because complex carbs are included. Some would debate whether complex carbs are really that much different from sugars.
Last edited by JulieJ08; 03-15-2010 at 12:15 PM.
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