Eating healthily, and the right amount, can help you to really feel your best, and prevent you from getting some diseases. But with the amount of sugar, salt and fats being in foods being very prevalent in the news at the moment (i.e. up to 25 spoons of sugar in pre-made coffees from high street coffee shops!), how easy is it to actually eat healthily?
According to ‘Action on Sugar’ here are a few tips about cutting down on sugar in our diets:
- Instead of adding sugar to cereal, try adding fresh fruit (bananas, strawberries & raspberries are great) or dried fruits (raisins, cranberries or apricots)
- Similarly buy natural yoghurt and add your own fruit rather than buying sweetened/fruit yoghurts
- When baking cookies, brownies or cakes, cut the sugar in your recipe by 1/3. Often you won’t notice the difference
- Enhance foods with spices instead of sugar; try ginger, allspice, cinnamon or nutmeg
When looking at food labels, look for foods that have less than 5.0g out of 100g. Foods high in sugar have more than 22.5g out of 100g OR more than 27.0g of sugar per portion. Remember that soft drinks are a very high source of sugar intake with no nutritional value!