The sugar hidden in sauces and dressings: this way you can be harming your diet

The peoples consume excess sugar and much of it comes from processed foods, not only pastries, ice cream and other sweet foods, as well salty foods can be a great source of sugar.

If you have tried to reduce the amount of added sugars in your diet and for this you eliminated cookies, breakfast cereals or other foods you should know that you may also be harming your diet with the intake of other products such as sauces and dressings that are foods with great amount of sugar hidden and then we show it.

Sugar hidden in sauces and dressings

Remember that it is not the same as the sugar that can have fruits and vegetables that the sugar that is added to foods at an industrial level to accentuate the flavor of the final products.

The latter are added sugars that we must limit if we want to respect the WHO recommendations of not exceeding 10% of the daily calories in the form of sugar, and ideally, consume a maximum of 5% of the total energy.

An excess of sugar in the diet can lead to serious health risks, hence it is essential to identify the sugar hidden in many processed foods or products that we include in our diet.

The sauces and dressings are a great source of sugar and perhaps are foods that do not imagine that we must reduce if we achieve a balanced diet, therefore, here are the sugar that hide these products:

• Tomato sauce : a cup that is what is indicated as a ration as usual, can exceed 50 grams of sugar depending on the brand we use.
• Pink sauce for pasta : for each cup or suggested ration, this sauce can contain up to 45 grams of sugar , of which, the vast majority are added industrially.
• Vegetable pasta sauce : although the proportion here is reduced, this pasta sauce that we usually consider the healthiest option among all, concentrates for each serving of a cup more than 10 grams of sugar .
• Ketchup : although there may be variations according to the trademark, a sachet or serving contains approximately 3 grams of sugar.
• French salad dressing: this dressing includes honey among its list of ingredients, but the commercial version exceeds the amount of sugar it offers, which can exceed 2.5 grams per tablespoon.
• Italian dressing: for each spoonful of this dressing that we use to flavor our salad we will be adding 1.25 grams of sugar of industrial origin.

If we think that in a diet of 2000 Kcal it would be ideal not to exceed 25 grams of sugar , we will easily realize that an assiduous use of sauces and commercial dressings may be the reason why we do not manage to moderate the added sugars in our diet despite have eliminated cereals, cookies and pastries in it.

The best thing in these cases is to avoid the commercial options and in his replacement, to elaborate homemade sauces and dressings that without a doubt will concentrate less added sugars that can harm our diet and consequently, the health of the organism.