JAKARTA - Limiting daily sugar intake can have a significant impact on overall body health. We need to pay close attention to every food consumed, because not a few additional sugars are "hidden" in various foods.

The hidden sugar can be found in yogurt, spices, salad sauce, sports drinks, to contracts. Sugars like this tend to be low in nutrients, high in calories and fats.

Fortunately, you can read labels to find out your sugar content, limit simple carbohydrates, reduce processed foods, and eat more protein and healthy fats.

There are several ways to limit consuming sugar so as not to overdo it. Here are six tips to reduce daily sugar intake, as reported by the Health page.

Knowing which foods and drinks contain sugar, whether hidden or not, can help you reduce sugar intake. Sugar has many different names.

You can also see how much additional sugar is contained in a food and drink by reading the Nutrition Facts label, which contains "additional sugar" and "total sugar."

6 grams (g) of sugar contains four calories. If a product contains 15g of sugar per dish, it means 60 calories of sugar, not including other ingredients.

Processed white sugar is the type that is inserted into coffee or added to roast food. Blood flow that absorbs sugar moves rapidly. This causes a spike in glucose and insulin levels that can lead to health problems in the body

Processed sugar is also added to many food products during processing. You may find them with names such as sugar cane and high fructose cornfertosarups in a product, such as tomato sauce, bread, salad sauce, and dried fruit.

Soda, fruit juice, sports drinks, tea ice, and other sweet drinks contain additional sugar. For example, one can of soda contains 9 sdt, which is already a third more than the daily 6 sdt limit suggested by the American Heart Association.

It is recommended to replace soda with soda, because it does not contain additional sugar and zero calories. For fruit flavored drinks and fruit juice, replace it with bottled drinking water which is given an additional fruit or water which is given a fresh fruit slice.

If you want to reduce sugar intake in your family environment, try to reduce sweet snacks and products that contain sugar. If necessary, keep all the stock of snacks in a place that is difficult to see, for example in a drawer.

Dry cakes, biscuits,guides, white bread, and other snacks made with wheat flour contain a lot of additional sugar. These additional sugars can affect blood sugar levels that create an increasing taste of wanting to eat sweet foods.

On the other hand, try various types of food made of whole grains. Whole grains are converted into sugar during the digestive process. However, because they are complex carbohydrates and are not simple carbohydrates, this food is absorbed more slowly and provides stable energy.

Reducing sugar intake is not enough if it reduces the amount of sugar consumed. Always remember there is hidden sugar behind the food you want to eat.

According to research in the United States, Germany and Australia, hidden sugar is often contained in foods that may make us not suspect if there is a high sugar content.

Such as pizza, sauce, cake, sundeg food and so on. If we already remember if there is hidden sugar, then make sure when consuming it uses enough dose or the safest reduce the dose.


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