Savoury foods high sugar warning

Researchers scoured supermarket shelves

BBC News
High sugar content can be found in unlikely foods such as savoury snacks, campaigners say.

Researchers found meals such as Tesco crispy beef with sweet chilli and Asda's sticky chilli chicken had more sugar content than vanilla ice cream.

They said labelling was confusing as sugar could be classed as dextrose, fructose, glucose and sucrose.

Industry officials said manufacturers were putting more information than ever on products about sugar content.

Which? scoured supermarket shelves looking at the sugar content of food.

Sugar can either be present in food naturally, or added as a sweetener or preservative.

The Food Standards Agency classifies a product as having a high sugar content if it has more than 15g of sugar per 100g or more than 18g if the portion is more than 100g. Read more...