Pretty bold to assume I'm not a hunter gatherer

Hmm that's super interesting.

You're perfectly right. And it's not just about energy, which there is a lot of in oils and proteins too. In nature, the sweetest things you'll get are different kinds of fruit - all packed full of vitamins, antioxidants, fiber and whatnot. And they're seasonal, so if you don't eat them right away, you're going to have to wait another year. So our taste makes us eat as much as we can. Sugar, of cours, is cheating.

(I just happen to be on my way to buy some pastries.)

What is this referring to Natural sugar or added sugar? Normally the yoghurt doesn't have added sugars beyond what were presswnt are in the milk originally.

For sauces you can easily read the labels and find which ones contain added sugar, at least in europ it's mandatory listing that.

Did you use the calories or the grams of sugar to determine the amount?

i guarantee im not eating any of that sugar

Check out how much sugar they put into frozen pizza. It's basically a sweet.

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

Oh yeah - I've had to start watching my carbohydrate intake for health reasons and it's amazing just how much of that stuff is in processed food: for example "American Style Onion Rings (frozen)" from Lidl is over 40% carbohydrates - so basically the 450g pack of it has 180g of sugars and the kind of stuff your digestive system will turn into sugars.

One would think it would be only starchy foods (like bread, pasta, rice and such) and cakes and sweets that have lots of it, but no, most processed food is loaded with carbohydrates, often already directly as sugars, probably because the cheapest ingredient to bulk it up is flour.

Mind you, lots of natural or lightly processed foods have quite a bit of it - for example natural yoghurt with nothing added has maybe 6% of carbohydrates (tough yoghurt with fruit is way worse, since the adding of fruit is generally mixing it with fruit jam which has a lot of sugar) and most fruits have quite a bit of sugar (for example, common varieties of apple have about 14% of sugar - so your run of the mill apple comes with 1 spoonful of sugar included - and some varieties have a lot more) which is why there's this funny paradox that natural fruit juice has a lot more sugar in it than the same amount of Coca-Cola (since when you make the fruit juice you throw away the fiber and most of the protein leaving a much higher percentage of sugar than originally).

Generally, the kind of stuff that has almost no carbohydrates are veggies, like lettuce or broccoli.

Always spend the extra buck or two for the better sauces. Actually I've started making a mean meat sauce as I found a fantastic place to get red bell peppers (for a dollar more but huge difference); their sweetmess easily offsets the acidity of the tomatoes (although better sauces use better tomatoes or cook longer). Also don't overcook your garlic, it's sweetest when it's less cooked.

Always check the labels for the ingredient list. The order of ingredients corresponds to how much of each ingredient there is.

When your "diet yogurt" has more sugar than milk ingredients, its not diet yogurt.

Oh that's why yoplait is so fucking good

Right, bad healthcare => no pressure to make people' lives healthier. I guess that's why you still don't have a less sugar novement?