How well can you distinguish added sugars from other ingredients on a nutrition label? Take this quiz to find out!

Added sugars are sugars put into foods and beverages during processing.

They add flavor but contain zero essential nutrients and can cause many health problems, including heart disease, obesity, and type 2 diabetes, if consumed excessively.

The American Heart Association (AHA) recommends limiting your added sugar intake to no more than 6% of your daily calories. This is about 25 grams (g) for women and 36 g for men consuming 2,000 calories per day.

To find out a product’s added sugar content, look at the nutrition facts label, which lists the added sugars under the total sugars in grams.

Though you don’t necessarily need to know the names of ingredients considered added sugars, it can’t hurt to test your knowledge of them. The more you know, the better you can try to avoid them.

See if you can identify what’s not an added sugar — there are more than 50 names for them! — among those found in packaged desserts, sweetened beverages, and similar foods with this quiz.

Sugars found in whole, unprocessed foods are naturally occurring sugars and not considered to be added sugars. For this quiz, we reflect the FDA’s definition of added sugars, which doesn’t include those that are naturally occuring.

This content is for informational purposes only and does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment