Hello there, I am Monica Reinegel, and you're listening to The Nutrition Diva Podcast,

where every week we take an evidence-based look at the latest nutrition topics and trends.

And this week, we're going to explore the research on how different sources of protein

affect satiety, or how long they keep you full.

But first, I wanted to answer a really interesting question that came in this week from Pamela,

who wrote,

her water and various phytonutrients, it's all good.

On the other hand, we've been well-trained to regard added sugar as a dietary demon,

where advised to limit our intake of added sugar to no more than 10% of our calories, or less

than 5% if you're a nutritional goody-touches.

And thanks to recent updates in our nutrition facts labeling, you can now easily see the

amount of added sugar broken out from the amount of total sugar in packaged foods.

So for general nutritional wellness, as opposed to diabetes management, for example, we're

told that that added sugar number is the only one we need to worry about.

Now this, predictably, has led to some food industry shenanigans, for example, right

next to the regular jams and jellies, which are made with fruit and sugar, you're going

to find jams and jellies that are sweetened only with concentrated fruit juice.

And these are presumably better for you because no added sugar.

But if you look at the nutrition facts labels on these products, you'll see that while

the added sugar content is quite a bit higher in the traditional jams than in the fruit

juice sweetened jams, the total sugar content is very similar.

Is there a real difference in terms of how these two products affect your body?

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