Tips for Reducing Sugar in your Diet
February 14, 2021

Added sugars are often hiding in seemingly healthy foods. Don’t let sneaky sugar sabotage your weight loss success!

 

  • Choose to drink water, calorie-free beverages, herbal tea instead of sugary sodas and drinks
  • Choose whole fruits instead of processed desserts and fruit juices.
  • When you do drink fruit juice, make sure it’s 100% fruit
  • Add fruit to cereal instead of buying sweetened cereal or adding table sugar
  • Use sugar-free preserves or fresh fruit to sweeten plain yogurt instead of eating sweetened yogurt with fruit in it
  • Snack on vegetables, fruit, low-fat cheese, or whole-wheat crackers
  • Choose unsweetened products, such as unsweetened applesauce or nut butters
  • Add flavors like vanilla, spices, or citrus to flavor foods and drinks
  • Read the nutritional facts and check if there are added sugars (called by many different names : brown sugar, corn sweetener, corn syrup, dextrose, fructose, glucose, high-fructose corn syrup, honey, lactose, malt syrup, maltose, molasses, raw sugar, and sucrose).