8 'Health' Foods Secretly Filled with Sugar

8 'Health' Foods Secretly Filled with Sugar

Posted by Allison Crawford - Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that sugar is bad for you. It's common knowledge that we should be

avoiding highly processed sugary foods like soda and candy; these lead to raised insulin levels and contribute

to obesity as well as many other diseases.

The tricky part is figuring out where all that sugar is hiding, because it can often be found in even the

most unlikely places.

One of the problems is that sugar goes by many names, which allows food manufacturers to hide the actual

amounts in their ingredients lists, as each different type of sugar can be listed as a separate ingredient. Sugar

can even hide under such labels as “natural flavors” and “organic” which are designed to trick consumers into

thinking a product is healthier than it really is. The bottom line is that all of these food manufacturers do not have

your health interests in mind; they have your wallet in mind. It's a known fact that sugar makes food taste better.

It's also cheap to produce and lasts a long time in packaged foods that sit in warehouses and on grocer's shelves

for months before they reach your home.

Most of the foods you see on the grocery stores' shelves is specifically designed to get you to buy more at the

lowest possible cost to the company, regardless of what the product will do to your health. This means that sugar

is put into practically everything to entice you into buying more of it.

So how do we avoid the stuff when food companies are using every available resource to hide it? The trick is in

really knowing what you're eating, and identifying the tricks used by food companies to sell you their sugar-filled

products. One of the most common ways this is done is by marketing foods with high-sugar content as healthy

snacks or alternatives to known “junk foods.”

But these “healthy alternatives” are often just as bad or worse than their famously formidable counterparts.

Here are 8 of the most sugar-packed products marketed as health foods: