2007-03-11 10:11:56 · 10 answers · asked by rjams0113 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Diabetes
There are some really wrong answers here... Yes, there is a huge difference between the two.
Sugar free means just that... sugar free. It does not mean, however, that sugar alcohols haven't been used. They are not really sugar but they can impact blood glucose levels. An example would be sugar free cookies, cakes or candies. If you read the packaging it may say sugar alcohols in the ingredients. They can be advertised as sugar free though, because they don't contain actual sugar.
No sugar added means that there is natural sugar in the item, but no sugar has been added to it. An example is juice. There is no such thing as sugar free orange juice because oranges have natural sugar. You can find orange juice with no sugar added, which means no sugar was added to make it sweeter. The same is true for ice cream. Cream and milk have natural sugars in them, and no sugar added ice cream has only natural sugars in them (they tend to use other sweeteners, but not sugar). You usually find the "no sugar added" description on items that cannot possibly be sugar free because of the nature of their ingredients.
I hope this clears up some of the confusion.
2007-03-11 11:00:25 · answer #1 · answered by ♥ terry g ♥ 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Sugar free means there is no sugar in the food. No sugar added means there is probably natural sugar in the food, but they did not add any sugar to it.
2007-03-11 12:06:49 · answer #2 · answered by Esma 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they are very much different. Most fruits have some natrual sugars - that's why they are so sweet. A product labeled as "no suggar added" usually means that no refined sugar was added (the white or brown stuff you buy in the baking aisle; often referred to as HFCS (high-fructose corn syrup) on product labels, among many other names). Natural sugars are found in almost everything except for very pure protein and fat sources. These natural sugars are not explicitly bad for you though, so don't worry about them.
2007-03-11 10:19:10 · answer #3 · answered by fifreak3 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Sugar free = no sugar
no sugar added = no sugar was added in addition to what was already there. So there is sugar, just no extra sugar added.
2007-03-11 10:15:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Most definitely. No sugar added doesn't mean there is no sugar in it. It just means that they didn't put any more in.
2007-03-11 10:41:28 · answer #5 · answered by Lin s 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. When it says no sugar added it means just that, they didn't add any sugar! for example If you are drinking grape juice, and it says no sugar added, it doesn't mean there's no sugar in it, because fruit has natural sugar. they just didn't add any more!
2007-03-11 10:17:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
not really, no sugar added means that you only have the fruit's sugar in it and no other sugar, sugar free is usually used when there is no fruit involved in the mix.
2007-03-11 10:16:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
no , they both mean there is no sugar in the type of food. So, no sugar added means sugar free and suger free means no sugar added.
( they mite use splenda but splenda is not sugar.it just tastes like it)
2007-03-11 10:17:48 · answer #8 · answered by becca 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
yes. No sugar added generally means that no refined sucrose was added to the product.
2007-03-11 10:15:25 · answer #9 · answered by David S 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I do have faith that a jam has greater genuine fruit in it and a jelly would not. Marmalade is in basic terms a german word for Jam. that's a similar element. interior the English language marmalade is comparable to a jam yet with citrus yet in the two case it has genuine fruit products..
2017-01-04 07:43:43 · answer #10 · answered by valaria 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋