I’m seeing a documentary I had already talked about on Dcomedieta: it’s called That Sugar Film , and it’s Damon Gameau’s docufilm, actor, about how sugar has ruined our lives and our health. Not because sugar is the devil, but because we simply consume too much of it. We consume it so much that we don’t even notice it. How is it possible? In fact, the problem is given by the sugars in food. In the film, Damon gets about 40 teaspoons of sugar a day simply by eating supermarket products that don’t qualify as snacks or sweets: sauces, soups, regular drinks, juices, breakfast cereals, yogurt. And not: biscuits or snacks! Thus we discover that even when we think we eat little sugar, we actually eat a lot.

Now I will give you a summary of the equivalent in teaspoons of sugar of some supermarket and bar products.

Sugar in food: how much sugar, in teaspoons, do certain foods hide?
Vegetable soups and creams: per serving contain 3.3 grams of simple sugars, about half a teaspoon. It is often present on the label as sugar. See here . However, some soups come as high as 3 teaspoons of sugar, as in Heinz soups.
Ready-made sauces, sauces, pesto: per serving they contain from 5 to 6 and a half grams of sugar, the equivalent of a generous teaspoon.
Condiments (sauces, vinaigrettes, ketchup): basically up to a teaspoon of sugar per tablespoon of sauce.
Sweet and sour preserves, mixed vegetables in sweet and sour jars etcetera:they reach almost two teaspoons of sugar (8/9 grams) per serving.
Iced tea (like summer) in a jar or can: from 4.5 teaspoons of sugar to 7.
33 teaspoons of soft drinks: like coca cola or fanta, equivalent to 7 teaspoons of sugar.
Fruit juice, in brik: one brik is equivalent to just over six teaspoons of sugar.
Fruit smoothies or “healthy” juices (like Innocent):  you get to 7 teaspoons of sugar
Coffee cream from the bar: if it’s small, that’s 3 teaspoons of sugar, if it’s the largest portion, six.
Cold coffee at the bar: on average, a small glass of cold coffee is 3 teaspoons of sugar.
Packaged sorbet:well, six and a half teaspoons of sugar per serving for a regular lemon sorbet.
125g fruit yogurt: This is equivalent to 3 teaspoons of sugar, but some brands go as high as 25g of sugar, or 5 teaspoons.
Yogurt with live lactic ferments to drink: they are those vials with bifidus and other enzymes. Who knows with those two teaspoons of sugar how do the cultures survive.
Yogurt to drink (250, 300 ml): we come to almost six teaspoons of sugar. The equivalent of a mars.
Breakfast cereals: they range from the simplest ones that contain about 3-4 teaspoons of sugar per serving, to those for children, 5-6 teaspoons per serving.
Hazelnut spread:a spoonful of nutella has the equivalent of at least one and a half teaspoons of sugar.
Cereal bar: about two teaspoons of sugar per bar!
(Sources: fat secret; dailymail ; fitlife )