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So does that mean that if I want to avoid food high in sugar, I am ok to eat food with high 'grams carbs (all from sugar)'?





No, this would mean the food item was high is sugar.


Carbohydrates are made up of 3 components: starch, sugar and fibre. So if something lists total carbs as 20g and carbs from sugar as 20g then there is no starch or fibre component in the carbohydrates in that food item - just sugar.

If another food item listed total carbs as 80g and carbs from sugar 20g then that would mean of that 80g only 20g was sugar and the remaining 60g was starch and fibre.

So to avoid foods high in sugar, choose foods with low carbohydrate content.


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