What did you have for breakfast today? A big “healthy” bowl of cereal? Perhaps with some low-fat fruit yoghurt? And some juice to wash it all down?
We hate to break it to you, but if that sounds like your regular breakfast, you could be eating more than your daily recommended intake of sugar before you head out the door!
In fact, a brekkie containing dried fruit, low-fat yoghurt and apple juice could easily triple your daily sugar intake recommended by The World Health Organization .
Want to get off to a better start? Here are five common offenders to look out for (they all contain six teaspoons of sugar!)
1 ¼ sultana and apricot snack pack (approximately 46g).
While we have nothing against fresh fruit, this is like condensed little pellets of sugar without the added water to keep you full.
½ bottle of apple juice.
The opposite problem to dried fruit! The water stays but the fibre is stripped out. A cup of apple juice (half a 500ml bottle) can contain three to four apples… now could you eat that many in one go?
⅔ large UP&GO.
The 500ml UP&GO Energize Liquid Breakfast Choc Flavour has a whopping 9.4 teaspoons of sugar, taking it above the WHO’s upper limit for sugar consumption (nine teaspoons). Can anyone tell us why this product has a 4.5 Health Star Rating?
A large bowl of cereal.
Such as Nutri Grain, which has three teaspoons of sugar per serve (and also a 4 Health Star Rating). However, if you were a real “Iron Man”, you might find it easy to double their recommended 30g serving size – tallying up to six teaspoons.
A single serve tub of low-fat berry yoghurt.
When manufacturers take the perfectly good fat out, they have to replace it with something to make it palatable. That’s why low-fat fruit yoghurts, like this 150g tub of Vaalia Luscious Berries, can have more than five teaspoons of sugar per serve. Although lactose does account for about one teaspoon of this, the overall sugar content is still much too high.
We originally published this article in January 2016. We updated it in April 2017.
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