About Free Sugars
Free sugars are defined by the World Health Organization and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in multiple reports as "all monosaccharides and disaccharides added to foods by the manufacturer, cook, or consumer, plus sugars naturally present in honey, syrups, and fruit juices".
Iced coffee can be more sugary than chocolate - Which?
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Toddlers may be getting hooked on sugar in snacks
... What are Free Sugars? This group includes sugar added to food or drinks - at home, or by a chef or other food manufacturerIt also includes sugars that naturally occur in foods such as honey, syrups (maple, agave and golden), nectars (blossom), and unsweetened fruit juices, vegetable juices and smoothies Sugar found naturally in milk, fruit and vegetables, does not count as Free Sugars but is included in the " total" sugar figure on food labelsDr Kawther Hashem, Campaign Lead at Action on Sugar, and Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London, said it was " ludicrous" that certain food companies were being allowed to promote high-sugar sweet snacks to parents with very young children, despite them being aware that babies and toddlers shouldn t be having any Free Sugars...