There has been a lot of news coverage lately about the health risks of added sugar, but the general consensus seems to be that naturally-occurring sugars (like in fruit) don't present the same health risks.
Unfortunately, the nutritional information boxes on food packaging don't distinguish between these. For example, the organic unsweetened applesauce in my fridge contains 12g of sugar per serving. The supermarket ice cream in my freezer contains 13g of sugar per serving. But I suspect the ice cream has far more of the added sugars we're supposed to avoid!
It's pretty glaringly obvious if you're comparing ice cream to applesauce, but what if it were a fruit smoothie? Some of that sugar is going to be the naturally-occurring sugar contained in the fruit, and some of it is going to be the added sugar that we're supposed to avoid.
If they want people to take this seriously, they should list the added sugars separately from the naturally-occurring sugars in the nutritional information.
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