What’s on the Added Sugar poster
A definition and 6 facts worth remembering.
Free sugars are those added to food, plus those naturally present in honey, syrups and fruit juice. Sugar inside whole fruit and milk is not counted, because it comes with fibre or protein.
- UK guidance: no more than 30 g of free sugars a day for adults.
- A 330 ml cola contains around 35 g.
- Fruit juice counts as free sugar; whole fruit does not.
- Ingredients are listed by weight, so several sugar names split the total.
- Names include syrup, dextrose, maltose, fructose, molasses, concentrate.
- Low-fat products often contain more sugar to compensate.
- Adult limit — ~30 g/day
- One teaspoon — 4 g
- Cola, 330 ml — ~35 g
- A single can of a sugary drink can exceed a whole day's recommended free sugars.
General public health guidance, not individual advice.
Questions about the Added Sugar poster
- What’s on the Added Sugar poster?
- A definition and 6 facts worth remembering. Free sugars are those added to food, plus those naturally present in honey, syrups and fruit juice. Sugar inside whole fruit and milk is not counted, because it comes with fibre or protein. UK guidance: no more than 30 g of free sugars a day for adults.; A 330 ml cola contains around 35 g.; Fruit juice counts as free sugar; whole fruit does not.; Ingredients are listed by weight, so several sugar names split the total.; Names include syrup, dextrose, maltose, fructose, molasses, concentrate.; Low-fat products often contain more sugar to compensate.; Adult limit — ~30 g/day; One teaspoon — 4 g; Cola, 330 ml — ~35 g; A single can of a sugary drink can exceed a whole day's recommended free sugars.. General public health guidance, not individual advice.
- Who is the Added Sugar poster for?
- Added Sugar belongs to the Body & health section rather than to a school year, because health is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning nutrition can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Added Sugar poster?
- Free sugars are the concern, not the sugar naturally inside whole fruit. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Added Sugar belongs on the wall where that health work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Added Sugar?
- Alcohol Units, Caffeine and Energy Balance sit alongside Added Sugar in the Body & health section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Alcohol UnitsCaffeineEnergy Balance
- Is the Added Sugar poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Added Sugar downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Body & health section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Added Sugar poster print at?
- Added Sugar is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Added Sugar loses nothing.Printing guide
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