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Sugar Intake Limit Checker
Hidden sugars vs daily recommended sugar limits.
How it works
Added and free sugars are the sugars manufacturers, cooks and you add to food, plus those naturally present in honey, syrups and fruit juice. They are different from the sugars locked inside whole fruit, which come with fibre and take longer to eat. This checker simply adds up the grams you enter from drinks, desserts and other sources, then compares the total with a limit you choose, so a single sweet drink can be seen in context instead of in isolation.
How to read the result
A 330 millilitre cola alone carries about 35 grams of sugar, already above the World Health Organization's ideal daily figure of 25 grams. That does not make one drink a disaster, but it does show how quickly drinks, sauces, breakfast cereals and desserts combine. The progress bar is a guide to proportion: crossing the line occasionally matters far less than crossing it most days.
One practical tip
Start with drinks, because liquid sugar is the easiest to cut without feeling deprived: water, sparkling water or unsweetened tea in place of one daily sweet drink often removes more sugar than weeks of careful label reading on solid foods.
Check savoury foods too, since sauces, breads and ready meals often contain added sugar that people do not expect; the label line for sugars, per serving and per hundred grams, is the quickest way to spot them.
When comparing labels, use the per-hundred-gram figure for fairness, since manufacturers often choose small serving sizes that make a sugary product look lighter than an equivalent portion of a competitor.