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Sugar Consumption

How Can We Reduce Sugar Consumption?

Carbohydrates are digested into simple sugars called
glucose, galactose and fructose in our body. However, the sugars that are
considered harmful are not these sugars, but are added sugars that are added to
foods later during production or processing. For example; Such as
sugars added to foods such as cakes, cakes, cookies, jam that are also cooked
at home or added to packaged ready-made products during production.

You should stay away from ready-made fruit juices or sugary drinks such as cola
and soda. In addition to your meals, you should prefer water, mineral
water, buttermilk or squeezed fruit juice instead of these drinks.

Sauces such as ketchup, mayonnaise, instant pomegranate syrup, barbecue sauce
and all kinds of ready-made sauces are high in added sugar content. You
should reduce the consumption of these sauces and add your foods to chili,
sumac, thyme, etc. You should try to season it with spices.

Products such as fruit yoghurt, fruit milk, fruit cereals, 3 in 1 or 2 in 1 coffees sold in
supermarkets are ready-made products with high added sugar content. Instead
of these products, you can consume fruits by blending them with foods such as
yoghurt and milk or by mixing dried fruits with plain oat cereals. You can
avoid unhealthy sugars by consuming plain coffee instead of the coffees I
mentioned above.

You should stay away from ready-made diet products. Many ready-made products sold under the name of
diet, light are products in which the fat content is reduced and the added
sugar ratio is increased in order to keep calories low. Diet biscuits,
light milk and yogurts are examples of these products.

You should consume
beverages such as tea and coffee without sugar. If you have the habit of
consuming these drinks with sugar, it is a good idea to try to reduce the sugar
count first.

Finally; You should thoroughly examine the labels of the products you buy, as there may be added
sugar even in packaged products that you have never expected. Names such
as sugar, glucose syrup, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, dextrose,
fructose, grape juice concentrate, apple juice concentrate, maltodextrin
indicate add-on sugar.