Tesco creates controversial "birthday cake" sandwich (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Not really sure what they're on about at all really

The NHS RDA for sugar is 30g

So this is either over 100% or about 10% if it's just a decimal point error.

There may be a recommended intake of 10g somewhere that would make the latter maths properly, but I can't seem to find it. And tbh given there are better sources of carbs I'd expect the recommended intake of sugar to be 0g

(At least if I'm trying to reason why there might be two values for RDA Vs RDI, where one is a limit and one is the ideal amount)

[-] MurrayL@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The confusion comes from the differentiation between total sugars and ‘free sugars’, with only the latter being the kind of sugars we’re told to cut down on. You can see more info here.

The reference intake for total sugars is 90g a day, which includes 30g of "free sugars".

The nutrition info label on food references the total sugars limit of 90g. In this case, the sandwich contains 31.5g of total sugars, which exceeds the limit for free sugars but is only 35% of the total sugar limit, so that’s how it’s labelled.