HIDDEN SUGAR QUICKLY ADDS UP

150ml SAINSBURY’S ORANGE JUICE 12g sugar

FRUIT sugars may be natural, but juicing releases them from the fibrous structure of the fruit and concentrates harmful ‘free’ sugar. It’s also all too easy to overconsume juice. Fruit juices still provide the same vitamins as the whole fruit, so you’ll get some vitamin C from this serving.

4 SQUARES LINDT 70% DARK CHOCOLATE 11.6g sugar

DARK chocolate is the least sugary type, but there’s still more than a third of your daily limit in this serving. Dark chocolate provides some magnesium, important for the nervous system and energy, and compounds called flavonoids, which help keep arteries flexible.

2tbsp (30g) BRANSTON PICKLE 8.7g sugar

IT ONLY takes a couple of tablespoons (30g) of Branston pickle, which you may get in a ploughman’s sandwich, to get you to almost a third of your daily limit of free sugars. After the vegetables, which make up 54 per cent of the pickle, sugar is the next biggest ingredient.

30g CRUNCHY NUT CORN FLAKES 11g sugar

THE sugar here is the standard added white stuff, as well as honey. With 11g sugar in a 30g bowl, that’s more than in Coco Pops, which have recently been reformulated (5.2g per 30g bowl). Choose Shredded Wheat or Weetabix instead and add a few raisins if you really need sweetness.

2tbsp SAINSBURY’S CLEAR HONEY 12.1g sugar

HONEY is a natural product with a lot of unhealthy sugar in it. It may seem a better thing to put on your porridge than sugar, but it’s really no better because the body treats all added sugars, which effectively have the same chemical structure, in the same way.

1 (27g) CHOCOLATE MINI ROLL 11.4g sugar

JUST one chocolate mini roll contains more than a third of your recommended daily limit of added sugar. It also has 16 per cent of your daily saturated fat limit. Swap for a Chocolate Hobnob (6.2g sugar).

3 CUSTARD CREAMS 10.2g sugar

THESE popular biscuits are 28 per cent added sugar, so if you eat three of them, that’s twoand-a-half teaspoons — which is a third of your daily limit. A better biscuit choice would be digestives (7.5g sugar per three biscuits) which would also supply 1.5g fibre.

HALF 180g PACK TESCO BBQ PULLED PORK 8.6g sugar

SAVOURY meals can be high in sugar, especially if they have a barbecue sauce or marinade. This has over two teaspoons in a halfpack. Watch for meals in sweet chilli or other sticky sauces — and if you’re adding these sauces or marinades to home-cooking.

200g ONKEN MANGO, PAPAYA & PASSIONFRUIT YOGHURT 10.4g sugar

EVEN ‘healthy’ yoghurts are sugary. A 200g serving of this has two-and-ahalf teaspoons of added sugar, a third of your daily limit. But it supplies 30 per cent of your calcium needs and 7.6g protein. Try natural yoghurt with raisins instead.