 Top 10 Sources Of Hidden Sugar That Weren’t On Your Radar |
3. Dried Fruit
Fresh fruits and veggies are irreplaceable as healthy foods from which you truly get the vitamins and minerals you need without any unwanted additives.
On the other hand, as soon as their structure changes so do their molecules, and the effects are simply different.
Not that dried fruit is particularly unhealthy, but it is essentially candy. It goes nice to add flavor to a salad or cereal, it is used in baking and many other forms of cooking, but its delicious taste comes from, you’ve guessed it, sugar.
Consider this: a cup full of fresh cranberries contains 4 grams of sugar found in the fruit naturally, whereas a quarter cup of dried cranberries contains as much as 29 grams of sugar! With the recommended daily dose of sugar being at 5% of the daily calories, (for a 2,000-calorie diet, 100 calories can come from sugar), dried cranberries are most definitely candy.
