I might advise not downing an entire pound-and-a-half jar of spaghetti sauce in one go.

Have I lost track of what memes are? Or is it the children who are wrong?

To be fair, if you make pasta sauce from scratch you're going to be using a fair amount of sugar to balance the acidity of your tomatoes, so I don't find pasta sauce a useful demonstration.

But you're still making a good point. Once you start making stuff yourself, you really see what isn't required.

Shout-out to Rao's for actually not having a whole lot of sugar and being genuinely one of the best pasta sauces you can get in a jar. Add a little Tabasco sauce and red wine and let that simmer for an hour or so and it's perfection.

Fage is definitely my favorite yogurt. I'm always like "how the fuck is this so God damn good? It has virtually no sugar or anything added"

Also in case you didnt know, for many reduced fat items they just end up adding more sugar.

This is why I make my pasta sauce from scratch. Plus it tastes way better letting the natural sugars in the tomato get all roasty toasty.

I love how none of these comments account for fiber, something you won't get from granulated sugar but which you will absolutely get from any actual fruit, which at least one of these yogurts actually references in its label.

Fiber is not only good for you on its own for your gut health but will slow the rate of absorption of sugars, preventing sugar crashes and allowing your body to make use of the carbohydrates over time. It affects the glycemic index and is why real whole wheat/grain bread doesn't give you a sugar crash.

Source: The ability to read and the knowledge of the existence of diabetes

Instead of sweet cereals, I switched to plain cereals and then add packets of sugar. Yes, it costs more for sugar packets than a bag of sugar, but I would end up rounding over a spoonful.

Anyway, each sugar packet is 2.5 g. At 3 packets, on a bad day when I'm eating my frustration, that's way plenty. And that's only 7.5 g of sugar. The sweet cereals have at least 20 extra g of sugar. Yikes!

These companies want to load every packaged food with sugar. They need to be regulated.

That seems about right for sugar contents for such foods, especially since the yogurts have berries in them. I dont quite get what point is getting made, most fruits and berries have a good bit of sugar in them. There isnt anything inately bad about sugar, maybe when its high fructose corn zyrup but thats kinda its own thing. Also tomatoes are a berry.

This is why I make my own fresh tomato sauce. A single pound/half kilo of ripe tomatoes and about 15 minutes, you can have a fresh pasta sauce at home.

Them little old Italian Grandmothers ain't wasting all day to slow cook a tomato sauce. Unless they want to show off. They got lemoncello to make and drink.......

If you eat Siggis yogurt, there is a full-fat option with barely any sugar that is way, way, better. I don't typically like yogurt, but like it. Add honey if needed.

I happen to be eating it right now.

And don't forget bread. So much sugar in the US..

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I've heard of one of those brands but have never tried it myself (Chobani) and who impregnated the tomato sauce? 🤨

I wouldn't recommend consuming an entire jar of pasta sauce regardless of sugar content, it's just not economical.

If you use canned pasta sauce instead of making your own: screw these brands. Newman's Own is way better than all of these and is often cheaper. Bonus: 0 added sugar.

Interesting, Rao's became my favorite brand of jar sauce once I tried them. I wonder if the difference is mostly the sugar content. Expensive though.

Damn, that's a lot!

takes another swig of Prego

Kinda misrepresentative using granulated sugar. Not all sugar is the same, nor does it have the same effect in your body.

Both yogurt and pasta sauce are extremely easy to make from scratch, and sugar doesn't belong as an ingredient in either. Yogurt literally makes itself. Stop buying processed foods that are designed by teams of people to be addictive?

Explains part of the reason why Rao's tastes better than those other brands. I wish it had no sugar though.

Is that added sugar, or sugar from the other ingredients?

This is why I started making a lot of my own things. There are lots of options in the store for some items where you can get something without sugar that didn't need it. But then there's things like mayonnaise... Let me tell you that mayonnaise doesn't need any sugar and most brands that don't have sugar are like $11 for an 8oz jar. So I started making it myself at home. I also started making bread which later turned into a hobby, but now I can't eat the store bread because it's too sweet. I even make my own jam now and I know what you're gonna say "but jam is like... mostly sugar", but I'll have you know that jam tastes WAY better with half the sugar that it's typically made with. It's an art form to get it thick without adding more sugar, but it's worth it. Looking back, I know most people can't make all this shit and it's really sad that people can't buy things with less sugar at the store without paying an arm and a leg. It really says a lot about our society that this is true.

Pretty much any fruit flavoured food that is not artificial will contain sugar from the fruit juice. But most companies add sugar anyway.