
Healthy balanced diet
Current UK Government guidance is that approximately 50% of our total calorie intake should come from carbohydrates, including sugars and...
Read MoreYou might be surprised to know that, apart from fibre, sugar has no more calories than any other ingredient. On a gram for gram basis, sugars and starch, as well as protein, contain similar amounts of calories, while fat actually contains more than twice as many. So products with ‘reduced sugars’ or ‘no added sugars’ are not necessarily lower in calories compared to the original product.
The reason for this is say a manufacturer reduces the amount of sugar in a biscuit or cake, a product that also contains fat. This often results in fat then making up a higher proportion of the total product weight. Because fat contains twice as many calories as sugar, the new product containing less sugar could actually contain more calories per 100g than the original!