Foods high in Total Sugars

A food's total sugar count is what you actually consume in one sitting. The FDA sets no Daily Value for sugars; instead it recommends limiting daily intake rather than targeting it. This matters because your body treats added and natural sugars the same way once they are in your bloodstream, even though labels now break them apart.

Fruit, honey, and milk concentrate sugars naturally. Processed foods add them as syrups or crystals. One caveat: the ranking below shows concentration per unit weight, which is useful for comparing apples to soft drink, but a typical serving of some foods here is bigger or smaller than what people normally eat.

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Showing 1–50 of 6,926 foods

# Food Category Per 100 g Source
1 Sugars, granulated Sweets 99.80 g USDA_SR
2 Sweets, sugars, granulated Sweets 99.80 g CNF
3 Sugar, turbinado Sweets 99.19 g USDA_SR
4 Sweets, turbinado Sweets 99.19 g CNF
5 Sugars, powdered Sweets 97.81 g USDA_SR
6 Sweets, sugars, icing (powdered) Sweets 97.81 g CNF
7 Beverages, Whiskey sour mix, powder Beverages 97.30 g USDA_SR
8 Alcohol, cocktail, whisky sour mix, powder Beverages 97.30 g CNF
9 Beverages, lemonade-flavor drink, powder Beverages 97.15 g USDA_SR
10 Sugars, brown Sweets 97.02 g USDA_SR
11 Sweets, sugar, brown Sweets 97.02 g CNF
12 Strawberry-flavor beverage mix, powder Beverages 95.45 g USDA_SR
13 Strawberry flavour mix, powder Beverages 95.45 g CNF
14 Beverages, tea, instant, lemon, sweetened, powder Beverages 95.29 g USDA_SR
15 Beverages, tea, instant, decaffeinated, lemon, sweetened Beverages 95.29 g USDA_SR
16 Tea, instant, sweetened, lemon flavour, powder, decaffeinated Beverages 95.29 g CNF
17 Tea, instant, sweetened, lemon flavour, powder Beverages 95.29 g CNF
18 Drink, fruit punch flavour, vitamin C added, powder Beverages 95.20 g CNF
19 Beverages, Lemonade, powder Beverages 94.70 g USDA_SR
20 Drink, lemonade flavour, powder Beverages 94.44 g CNF
21 Drink, lemonade flavour, vitamin C added, powder Beverages 94.44 g CNF
22 Puddings, vanilla, dry mix, instant Sweets 92.90 g USDA_SR
23 Dessert, pudding, vanilla, dry mix, instant, unprepared Sweets 92.90 g CNF
24 Sweeteners, tabletop, fructose, dry, powder Sweets 92.70 g USDA_SR
25 Sweets, sugars, fructose, powder Sweets 92.70 g CNF
26 Beverages, orange-flavor drink, breakfast type, powder Beverages 92.31 g USDA_SR
27 Drink, orange flavour, vitamin C added, powder Beverages 92.31 g CNF
28 Candies, fondant, prepared-from-recipe Sweets 88.90 g USDA_SR
29 Candies, fondant, homemade Sweets 88.90 g CNF
30 Gelatin desserts, dry mix Sweets 86.04 g USDA_SR
31 Dessert, gelatin, dry mix, unprepared Sweets 86.04 g CNF
32 Sweets, sugars, maple, granulated Sweets 85.22 g CNF
33 Sweeteners, tabletop, saccharin (sodium saccharin) Sweets 85.19 g USDA_SR
34 Sweetener, saccharin Sweets 85.19 g CNF
35 Sugars, maple Sweets 84.87 g USDA_SR
36 Beverage mix, chocolate flavour, powder Beverages 83.88 g CNF
37 Honey Sweets 82.12 g USDA_SR
38 Sweets, honey, strained or extracted Sweets 82.12 g CNF
39 Beverages, chocolate-flavor beverage mix for milk, powder, with added nutrients Beverages 81.82 g USDA_SR
40 Beverages, rich chocolate, powder Beverages 81.82 g USDA_SR
41 Apples, dehydrated (low moisture), sulfured, uncooked Fruits and Fruit Juices 81.13 g USDA_SR
42 Apple, dehydrated (low moisture), sulphured, uncooked Fruits and fruit juices 81.13 g CNF
43 Sweeteners, tabletop, aspartame, EQUAL, packets Sweets 80.70 g USDA_SR
44 Sweetener, aspartame, EQUAL Sweets 80.70 g CNF
45 Candied fruit Fruits and Fruit Juices 80.68 g USDA_SR
46 Candied fruit Sweets 80.68 g CNF
47 Puddings, coconut cream, dry mix, regular Sweets 80.54 g USDA_SR
48 Dessert, pudding, coconut, dry mix, regular, unprepared Sweets 80.54 g CNF
49 Beverages, drink mix, QUAKER OATS, GATORADE, orange flavor, powder Beverages 80.50 g USDA_SR
50 Sports drink, orange flavour, powder Beverages 80.50 g CNF

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