The other morning, I was eating some gluten-free yogurt with my toast.  I happened to check the amount of sugar in the yogurt.  It contained 24 grams of sugar.  So I picked up some candy to compare sugar content.  It also was 24 grams.  Now my interest was peaked.  Which contained more sugar, candy bars or yogurt?  I bought the yogurts from 2 supermarkets in my area.  The following yogurts had 23-25 grams of sugar: Yoplait, Bayview, Sunnyside, and Brown Cow “Natural”.  Chobani Greek yogurt contained 20 grams of sugar and Greek Gods Greek yogurt contained 12 grams of sugar.  With the yogurts high in sugar, I looked at other components of my breakfast.  My orange juice contained another 24 grams of sugar (this is processed orange juice not fresh squeezed).  If you drink coffee like I do the coffee creamers contain about 5 grams of sugar per tablespoon.  The whole grain toast was another 4 grams of sugar (without jam or margarine).  So by the time I was ready to leave for work I had consumed 58 grams of sugar.  This is equal to two candy bars.  Is it any wonder that the estimated amount of sugar comsumed per year is 200 pounds.

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