Daily Sugar Usage

Most adults and children in the UK are eating too much sugar. The average British person consumes 15 teaspoons of sugar each day and often without realising it. The World Health Organization recommends no more than six teaspoons of sugar per person per a day. Read any food packaging and you will see that sugar can be found in almost all products ranging from soups to cereals to fish cakes. Sugar occurs naturally in food such as fruit and milk and we don't need to cut down on these types of sugars but we do need to look at the amount of pure sugar within our diet, the amount of sugar we are consuming by eating manufactured foods. For some cutting down their sugar intake is not