Sweets and Sugars

Happy Halloween!

Now I know you all have a busy day of scaring children and eating their candy, so I’ll try to be short and sweet. Too late! I’m already short and sweet…mostly sweet, of course. Anyway, here’s some info for you:

Top selling candies worldwide and how much sugar they contain [please note that I did the top worldwide candies, top US, and top UK candies (since the US and UK are my biggest audience on the blog at the moment)]:

Cadbury’s Dairy Milk (Cadbury) – Milk chocolate bar ~ 1 bar has 22 grams of sugar

Chick-O-Sticks (Atkinson Candy Company) – Peanut butter and coconut sticks ~ 1 stick has 32 grams of sugar

Hershey’s (Hershey) – Milk chocolate ~ 1 bar has 31 grams of sugar

Hollywood (Cadbury) – Chewing gum ~ Sugarless

Hsu Fu Chi (Hsu Fu Chi International) – Assorted Candies ~ Sugar content varies

Kit Kat (Nestlé) – Milk chocolate wafer ~ 1 bar has 22 grams of sugar

Lemonheads (Ferrara Pan Candy Company) – Sour hard/soft candy ~ 1 piece has 1.2 grams of sugar

M&Ms (Mars Inc.) – Chocolate candy (milk chocolate) ~ 1 package has 31 grams of sugar

Meiji (Meiji Seika Kaisha) – Chocolate bar ~ 1 bar has 30 grams of sugar

Mike-n-Ikes – Chewy fruit candy ~ 1 piece has 1.1 grams of sugar

Milka (Kraft) – Milk chocolate ~ one bar has 24 grams of sugar

Now and Laters – Taffy ~ one piece has 2.6 grams of sugar

Orbit Gum (Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.) – Chewing gum ~ sugarless

Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (Hershey) – Milk chocolate and peanut butter ~ 1 package is 25 grams of sugar

Snickers (Mars) – Milk chocolate, nougat, peanuts, caramel – 1 package has 30 grams of sugar

Strawberry Twizzlers (Hershey) – chew fruit candy ~ 1 piece has 4.75 grams of sugar

Trident Gum (Cadbury) – Chewing gum ~ sugarless

Vivident (Perfetti Van Melle) – Chewing gum ~ sugarless

Now, according to www.livestrong.com, the “U.S. government does not make recommendations for how much sugar you should get each day.” Sugar is a simple carbohydrate therefore, “the Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that each person take in between 45 and 65 percent of his daily recommended calorie requirements as carbohydrates.” [I know, you’re loving this!!!]

Now, before you eat all that candy….

The American Heart Association (AHA) recommends no more than half your daily calorie allowance of added sugars. (This actually includes fats and sugars)

Therefore:

Woman, no more than 24 grams of sugar

Men, no more than 36 grams of sugar

So this means according to your daily sugar intake (rounded to whole or nearest quarter if less than one serving):

Women	Men
1 Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Chocolate Bar	1 Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Chocolate Bar
¾ Chick-O-Stick	1 Chick-O-Sticks
¾ Hershey’s bar	1 Hershey’s bar
Unlimited Hollywood Gum	Unlimited Hollywood Gum
Varies ~ Hsu Fu Chi	Varies ~Hsu Fu Chi
1 Kit Kat bar	1 Kit Kat bar
20 pieces of Lemonheads	30 pieces of Lemonhead
¾ package of M&Ms	1 package of M&Ms
¾ Meiji bar	1 Meiji bar
21 pieces of Mike-n-Ikes	32 pieces of Mike-n-Ikes
1 Milka bar	1 Milka bar
9 pieces of Now and Laters	13 pieces of Now and Laters
Unlimited Orbit Gum	Unlimited Orbit Gum
1 Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup (I’ll let the 1 gram slide)	1 Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup
¾ Snickers	1 Snickers
5 pieces of Strawberry Twizzlers	7 pieces of Strawberry Twizzlers
Unlimited Trident Gum	Unlimited Trident Gum
Unlimited Vivident Gum	Unlimited Vivident Gum

Note: This does not mean you eat the whole column. You would choose one item in your column for your daily maximum intake (assuming you don't have anything else that would be considered sugars/simple carbohydrates that day).

Sorry to depress you. Go back out, come back, reread, and stop before you reach “Now, before you eat all that candy….” That should do it!!!!


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