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"While sugar is easy to spot in candy, soft drinks and ice cream, it also hides out in foods you might not expect -- including peanut butter, pasta sauce and even bologna! Robert Lustig decodes confusing labels and sugar's many aliases to help determine just how much of that sweet carbohydrate makes its way into our diets."
How difficult it is to determine how much sugar is in a processed food? Because sugar can be labeled 56 ways. If you do not know all the variations of how sugar can be listed there is no way to determine how much sugar is in the product.
As always this video includes a Think section with 7 questions, a Digging Deeper section with additional resources, and access to an online forum.
If you are interested in additional TED-Ed videos that explore food and nutrition check out the You Are What You Eat collection at TED-ED at http://ed.ted.com/lessons/sugar-hiding-in-plain-sight-robert-lustig#watch.