Name: Sugar: Hiding in plain sight
Uploaded: 2019-03-22T18:25:11Z
Duration: 3 min 48 s
Description: While sugar is easy to spot in candy, soft drinks and ice cream, it also hides out in foods you might not expect -- including peanut butter, pasta sauce and even bologna! Robert Lustig decodes confusing labels and sugar's many aliases to help determine just how much of that sweet carbohydrate makes its way into our diets. [Directed by The Tremendousness Collective, narrated by Michelle Snow].

While sugar is easy to spot in candy, soft drinks and ice cream, it also hides out in foods you might not expect -- including peanut butter, pasta sauce and even bologna! Robert Lustig decodes confusing labels and sugar's many aliases to help determine just how much of that sweet carbohydrate makes its way into our diets. [Directed by The Tremendousness Collective, narrated by Michelle Snow].

Robert Lustig: Sugar: Hiding in plain sight

Sugar: Hiding in plain sight

Limiting sugar intake to WHO's recommendation of 25 grams daily can fortify health against the hidden sugars lurking in our diet.

Sugar's stealthy disguise in 'healthy' foods like soy milk and spaghetti sauce obscures its pervasive role in our diets.

Navigating the maze of sugar’s many aliases on food labels is crucial to manage intake, despite its widespread presence.