You’ll Be Surprised How Many Donuts Worth Of Sugar Are In These 10 Everyday Foods

Some foods contain a shocking amount of sugar.

To visualize this, we compared the amount of sugar in foods that are not traditionally thought of as dessert items, like yogurt and apple sauce, to the amount of sugar in a chocolate glazed donut — about 13 grams.

Nutritionists recommend limiting added sugar to 6 teaspoons per day for women and 9 teaspoons per day for men. For reference, 4 grams of sugar equals one teaspoon of granulated sugar.

Added sugar only includes things like cane sugar and high fructose corn syrup that aren’t found naturally in ingredients like fruit and milk. Keep in mind that naturally-occurring sugars and added sugar are combined on nutrition labels as “total sugar.”

(A similar post from Dana Liebelson at Mother Jones inspired our list of high-sugar foods. See their list here.)

Fruit-flavored yogurt = 2 chocolate glazed donuts.

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