date:Jul 29, 2015
reasonable to eat daily. Committee members established that amount at 50 grams for adults, which is approximately 200 calories or 10 percent of the prototypical 2000 calorie diet. This all translates to: not more than 10 percent of the calories in a healthful diet should come from added sugar.
The FDA's proposal is to translate that very information onto food labels, and indicate not only the grams of added sugar in the product, but also how much of the percent daily value is provided by a give