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Sugar
The number worth reading in teaspoons

On a label, "sugar" means all free sugars — added sugar plus the sugars in fruit juice, honey and jaggery. Your body treats them the same way; the WHO groups them together for exactly this reason. 4 grams is one teaspoon.

What the institutions say
WHO
Free sugars under 10% of daily energy (~50 g on 2,000 kcal); a further benefit below 5% (~25 g, about 6 teaspoons)
ICMR-NIN (Dietary Guidelines for Indians)
Added sugar not to exceed ~25 g/day
FSSAI
Requires total sugar per 100 g on every nutrition label
How it appears on the label

Sugar rarely appears once in an ingredient list. Sucrose, glucose, fructose, corn syrup, invert syrup, maltodextrin, fruit juice concentrate, honey and jaggery are all free sugars — a product can list four of them and each lands lower in the ingredient order than "sugar" alone would.

"No added sugar" is not "low sugar". A 100% fruit juice can carry 10+ g of sugar per 100 ml — comparable to a soft drink — with nothing "added" at all.

"Sugar-free" governs sucrose, not carbohydrates. A sugar-free biscuit is still mostly refined flour, which digests to glucose.

Per-serving numbers can make sugar look small: 6 g "per biscuit" reads gently; 32 g per 100 g is the same product.

In numbers you can picture
One 300 ml cola ≈ 8 teaspoons of sugar — a full day's WHO ideal in one bottle
A 100 g pack of glucose biscuits ≈ 5–6 teaspoons
"Healthy" breakfast cereals commonly run 20–30 g per 100 g — a quarter sugar by weight
What Falose does with it

Sugar per 100 g/ml is a weighted input to the negative load. We always score per-100 — never the brand's chosen serving — so shrinking the serving printed on the pack cannot move the score.

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