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“(Reuters) — A bran muffin and a flavored coffee drink are not unusual choices for a breakfast on the run. But along with fiber and caffeine, you may be getting something you hadn’t bargained for: a day’s worth of added sugar in just one small early morning meal.
We shouldn’t consume more than 40 grams — about 10 teaspoons — of sugar a day, based on a 2,000-calorie diet, said Andy Bellatti, a graduate student at New York University’s department of nutrition and food studies who blogs about diet and health at Small Bites. ‘It’s very easy, though, to go way above that because that’s basically one can of soda,’ Bellatti said. ‘So although 10 teaspoons sounds like a lot, it’s actually not really that much.’
Though the World Health Organization recommends that added sugar should make up no more than 10 percent of our daily caloric intake, the average American eats about double that. A muffin could have 11 teaspoons of sugar added, and a grande vanilla latte at Starbucks has about seven teaspoons.
There are a few different chemicals we may be referring to when we talk about sugar, although teaspoon-for-teaspoon their calorie content is virtually the same. Sucrose is essentially table sugar. Lactose is a naturally occurring sugar found in milk. Fructose is also found naturally i”
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