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An article<\/a> <\/strong>in The Upshot<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0from the\u00a0New York Times featured our research showing over 60% of the foods and beverages purchased in American grocery stores contain added sugar.<\/p>\n

Some of those products are more obvious sugary foods, but not all. The list includes many sauces, soups, fruit juices and even meat products. You might think it\u2019s easy to figure out whether the food manufacturer added sugar to your food, but it isn\u2019t always so. While some foods include \u201csugar\u201d in their ingredients, many use different words for products that are nutritionally similar. Most of us have heard of high-fructose corn syrup, a sugar made from processing corn. But there are also things like the \u201cevaporated cane juice\u201d in the yogurt, and \u201crice syrup\u201d and \u201cflo-malt,\u201d which are less obvious and amount to the same thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This article featured research from the Sweetening of the Global Diet, particularly beverages: patterns, trends, and policy responses<\/strong><\/a> in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology<\/a>.<\/strong> Read more from The Upshot here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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