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scarletlib

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94. Look at the labels.

Wed Jun 27, 2018, 07:47 AM

Jun 2018

All major ingredients are listed including sugar by number of grams and then the percentage of the RDA per diem. But not sugar. Only the number of grams. OJ has 22 grams of sugar per 8 oz. serving. What is percentage of that sugar to the RDA? It is not on the label. So unless you know that 25 grams is 88 percent of RDA for a child you will not know that that one glass of OJ is nearly the entire amount of sugar that child should have from all sources for a day.
I would say most parents do not know that. If that percentage was on the label it might influence that amount and types of food they give their children. It would help everyone trying to eat a better diet.

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