Customers Struggle To Understand “Added Sugars” On Food Labels.

When researchers showed consumers nutrition panels that broke out the grams of “added sugars” as part of the total grams of sugar in the food, many people miscalculated the amount of sugar, the study found.Even among consumers who said they frequently read food labels at the store, about 45 percent of them incorrectly identified the amount of sugar when they first looked at the label with separate lines for “sugars” and “added sugars,” the researchers report in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/19/us-food-labels-sugar-idUSKBN0OZ29420150619