SWAPFORA SWEETDEAL
Cut your sugar intake by tweaking your shopping list
SWAP Tesco ready to serve custard – 11.5g of sugar per 100g or nearly three teaspoons
Aunt Bessie’s creamy instant custard no sugar – 5.7g of sugar per 100g or a teaspoon Ribena squash THE number of adults in the UK with diabetes has more than doubled in the last 20 years.
About 3.7million Brits now live with the disease – and high levels of sugar in everyday foods have been blamed.
Here’s how you can help slash your intake by making simple swaps. SWAP Cadbury Brunch Bars raisin – 41.5g per 100g or 10 teaspoons
Kellogg’s Special K milk chocolate chewy delight – 24g per 100g serving or six teaspoons SWAP Haagen-Dazs vanilla – 14.3g of sugar per two-scoop portion or three teaspoons FOR Alpro vanilla soya ice cream – 13.5g per 100g or almost three teaspoons SWAP Strawberry Muller Corner – 15.6g of sugar per 100g or three teaspoons
Yeo Valley organic natural yogurt – 5.6g of sugar per 100g or one teaspoon