Sugar: Where Is It Found?

• Sugar in drinks is easy to accidentally drink in large amounts
• Drink water, seltzer water, and flavored waters with no added sugar.
• Avoid sodas, energy drinks and sweet beverages such as sweetened iced tea and sweetened coffee drinks
• Avoid sports drinks such as Gatorade unless you are doing a lot of hard physical activity.
• Avoid juice unless you have diabetes and are treating a low blood sugar with juice.

Sugar comes in many forms and has different names. Read food labels and avoid foods that have these sugar ingredients near the top of their ingredient list:

• Sugar/Cane sugar
• Honey
• Molasses/Maltodextrin
• Fruit juice or vegetable juice concentrates
• Agave nectar
• Brown sugar
• High fructose corn syrup
• Brown rice syrup
• Dextrose, Fructose, Sucrose, Maltose or Glucose

To learn more, see our handout “How to Read Food Labels" seattlechildrens.org/pdf/PE1543.pdf

Foods like cereal, yogurt, and canned fruit may have more sugar than we might expect. Compare food labels of similar foods and choose options with less sugar.

See below for examples.

• Chobani Greek, plain and fruit
• Chobani Less Sugar Greek
• Fage, plain and fruit
• Siggis
• Tillamook Farmstyle Greek, plain and fruit
• Wallaby Greek, plain and fruit
• Dannon Oikos Triple Zero
• Dannon Two Good
• Dannon Light & Fit Greek

• Brown Cow
• Ellenos
• Fage, honey flavor
• Noosa
• Tillamook Good & Creamy
• Stoneyfield Organic
• Yoplait Original
• Dannon Oikos Greek
• Dannon Fruit on the Bottom

• Cheerios, original or multigrain
• Chex, corn, rice or wheat
• Kix, original
• Corn Flakes, original
• Rice Krispies, original
• Honey Bunches of Oats, honey roasted
• Grape Nuts, original and flakes
• Life Cereal, original

• Lucky Charms
• Cocoa Krispies
• Froot Loops
• Frosted Flakes
• Frosted Mini Wheats
• Honey Smacks
• Alpha Bits
• Golden Crisp
• Captain Crunch, original