Dr. Gundry's Quick Health Tip: The 3 Ways You’re Being TRICKED With Misleading Food Labels | Ep 223.B

The Dr. Gundry Podcast

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Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Talk Radio

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🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to shopping at grocery stores it can be overwhelming - especially because these big food companies are LYING to you. By using sneaky labeling many of these companies trick you into thinking their packaged foods are healthy. To help you, Dr. Gundry shares the most misleading food labels that you need to watch out for next time you're at the grocery store.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast. The weekly podcast where Dr. G gives you the tools you need to boost your health and live your healthiest life.
0:13.5	Dr. Gundry here with a new series of short health tip of the day episodes where I share cutting-edge research to save your health but also to save your time as well.
0:24.0	I feature some of the most important health topics you need to know in order to live long and well.
0:29.0	Stay tuned because in just 10 minutes you can take these tips I'm going to share to improve your health for good.
0:37.0	So today I want to talk about three of the most misleading food labels out there and how to avoid getting threatened.
0:45.0	First of all, no added sugar. This may be one of my favorite ones. You see this on juices, dry fruits and a lot of other snacks.
0:56.0	What they don't want you to know is that this basically means that this product already has so much sugar in it, we didn't need to add anymore.
1:09.0	So if you see no added sugar, your antenna radar is ought to be blaring that this is a trick to make you eat huge sugar-laden products.
1:23.0	So the other thing you want to look for is so many labels that help save added sugar.
1:30.0	And you look at added sugar as what you actually think is in that product.
1:37.0	In fact, the system is being manipulated to disguise all the other sugar that's already there.
1:46.0	So sure, if you see a product with a lot of added sugar, you want to be aware that that's probably not a product that you want to use.
1:55.0	But even if you see very little added sugar that doesn't mean you should go look for the real sugar content.
2:04.0	So how do you find the real sugar content?
2:08.0	First of all, don't look at total sugar.
2:13.0	Look at total carbohydrates. That'd be one of the first things under the carbohydrate level.
2:20.0	Right below that, you'll see finally take the total carbohydrate number minus the fiber.
2:31.0	That won't actually tell you the entire ramps of sugar in that product.
2:39.0	Now, what does that mean?
2:42.0	Well, one teaspoon of table sugar has four ramps of sugar.
2:51.0	So, the fun thing to do is take that total carbohydrates minus the fiber.
2:58.0	Take that number in ramps of sugar divided by four.
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