A patient wants to know what "no sugar added" on a food label means. What explanation is best?
a. The food has no calories.
b. No sugar was added during processing.
c. The food naturally has no sugar.
d. The food has 23% less sugar than normal.
B
"No sugar added" means that no sugar is added during processing (or packaging) and no ingre-dients are added that contain sugar. It does not mean that the food has no calories or that the food itself does not naturally contain sugar. A product with 23% less sugar than the original counterpart is labeled "low sugar."
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