“Sure, I’m sugar-free!” you say as you dollop sweet chilli sauce all over your lunch.
Believe it or not, sauces are one of the sneakiest hiding places for sugar. And, to top it off, some of the recommended serving sizes are just 5g per serve – so when you look at the nutritional panel they might not seem too bad… at first.
But in reality, a 5g serve is around the size of a 10 cent coin. We don’t think anyone would just have a teeny tiny little squeeze of tomato sauce with their fries though! So we worked out that the average “dollop” of sauce is around 30g, and set out to see how much sugar is in your standard dollop…
Bear in mind, that the recommended daily limit of sugar is 6–9 teaspoons, so a blob of some of these could nearly max that. Scary!
A word of caution… while sauces like mayo and aioli are low in sugar, they’re packed with vegetable oils. We’d opt to make our own!
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