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Good morning and welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition's new midweek

segment called Ask a Nutritionist. On today's show brought to you by Nutrition Weight and Wellness,

we will be answering three nutrition questions we've received from our Dishing Up Nutrition

listeners. And today, all three questions are about sugar.

So the first question is, when calculating teaspoons of sugar, are we to divide the grams of carbs

or sugar by four? I think it's a great question because a lot of people do get a little bit

confused about how to do

this calculation. So look at the total grams of carbohydrate on the nutrition facts, and then you

divide that by four, and that will give you the number of teaspoons of sugar it turns into in your body.

So also make sure to look at the serving size because the serving size oftentimes is a little

bit smaller than what we would actually consume. So you might need to adjust that total number of carbohydrates based on what

you would actually eat in one serving. And here's one example of a cereal. And this is a cereal

that is low in added sugar, but one cup contains 30 grams of carbohydrate. So if you divide that

by four, you're going to get seven and a half teaspoons. And again, when we look at that serving

size, you're probably not just eating one cup of cereal, right? You're probably eating two, maybe even more. So by doing

this calculation, it's really eye-opening and I think that it can help you to just say,

wow, no thank you. I don't want to purchase that food or I don't want to eat that food,

just knowing how much sugar that it does

turn into in your body. So the next question is, do the teaspoons of sugar total carb divided by

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