According to the national food safety standard "General Rules for Nutrition Labeling of Prepackaged Foods", "sugar-free or sugar-free" means that solid or liquid foods contain no more than 0.5 grams of sugar per 100 grams or 100 milliliters.
The internationally accepted concept is that sugar-free foods cannot contain sucrose or sugar from starch hydrolysates, including glucose, maltose, fructose, starch syrup, glucose syrup, and fructose syrup. But, it must contain alternatives corresponding to sugar, generally using sugar alcohols or oligosaccharides and other sweetener varieties that do not raise blood sugar can replace sucrose.
But we should note that the key to sugar-free food is not added sucrose, don't mark the "sugar-free" on the arbitrary intake . Sugar-free food such as sugar-free cookies, sugar-free cake, its own main raw material is starch, and in the process of its production will be added to a large number of milk, eggs and fat. After human consumption, the starch and fat will be broken down into small molecules of glucose, excessive intake will lead to increased blood sugar, but also lead to the intake of high calories.
So how should we choose sugar-free food?
1. Choose sugar-free food produced by regular manufacturers.
Regular manufacturers are more standardized, and the ingredients they add are definitely more accurate.
2. Look at the ingredient list when buying.
It is important to look at both the sucrose content and whether the food itself contains sugar, that is, whether its ingredients contain sugar.