I ask because I recently picked up some salsa from Good and Gather, the Pineapple Peach variety to be specific. The label says it only contains 1g of sugar plus 2g of added sugar per serving (15 servings per 16oz jar), yet it tastes so sweet. There are no artificial sweeteners in the ingredients list, but the label says it does contain a “Bioengineered Food Ingredient”. Can someone help me solve this mystery because this salsa tastes so sweet, but the Nutrition Facts don’t seem to indicate that it has much sugar at all. I’ve had a similar experience with Tia Lupita hot sauce, which tastes really salty, with next to no sodium. Is there something about Nutrition Labels that I’m missing here?
> Bioengineered Food Ingredient
That just means it contains a GM ingredient, likely HFCS from GM corn.
GM is nothing to be concerned with, buy as much GM as you can to own the luddites. HFCS sucks, GM does not.
For the future, you can determine it by doing Macro math. Try remembering this:1g of carbs = 4 calories1g of protein = 4 calorie1g of fat = 9 calories
Making up an example below:
Say we have a food that is 180 calories per serving
The food has:
Add the total calories from carbs + fat + protein = total calories of the food.
Once you understand the percent of calories that comes from a macronutrient, you can determine if it’s high in fat/ protein/ sugar/ etc.