sweetener
Sugar
Score
25
Added sugar is added sugar. Organic and 'cane juice' versions are the same molecule.
WHO's guideline is to keep free sugars below 10% of total energy intake, with a further reduction to 5% carrying additional benefit. Position on the label matters enormously here, which is why our grading weights early ingredients so heavily: sugar third on the list is a very different product from sugar fifteenth.
added sugar
Also appears on labels as
sucrose · cane sugar · organic cane sugar · evaporated cane juice · beet sugar · invert sugar · brown sugar
What this is based on
- Peer-reviewedWorld Health Organization · 2015