Read labels

It's not as simple as avoiding sweet foods to eating less sugar. You've already seen that it can hide in surprising foods like ketchup and granola.

Food manufacturers are now required to disclose added sugars on food labels, which is a good thing. On foods that contain them, added sugars are mentioned under total carbs. You may also look for sugar in the ingredient list. The higher on the ingredient list sugar appears, the more sugar the item contains because ingredients are listed from the highest amount to the lowest amount used by weight. However, added sugar is listed under more than 50 different names on food labels, making it more difficult to identify. The following are some of the most common: high fructose corn syrup, cane sugar or cane juice, maltose, dextrose, invert sugar, rice syrup, molasses, caramel,...