Want to know how much added sugar is in your favourite foods? Canadian companies don't have to tell you

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Marketplace tried to find out how much sugar is added to three popular products.

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Liberté’s organic vanilla 0% yogurt has 19 grams of total sugar per ¾-cup serving. In contrast, there is just five grams of total sugar per ¾-cup serving in Liberté's organic plain 0% unsweetened yogurt. Registered dietitian Stefania Palmeri worked with Marketplace to determine the amount of added sugar in some popular products. Unlike in Canada, added sugar is now listed on all nutrition facts labels in the United States — including the label for Campbell's tomato soup. That's because it's now required in the U.S. underMarketplace

"When you're looking at a tomato soup thinking, 'I'm trying to eat more vegetables,' you wouldn't expect one of the ingredients to be glucose-fructose."how many of the 32 grams of total sugar in its product are added sugar.

 

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