15 "Healthy" Foods You Won't Believe Are Full Of Added Sugar

Nut and Seed Butters

Offering many of the same advantages of granola and protein bars, nut and seed butter are great ways of getting proteins, fats, and fibers. From more traditional peanut butter to almond, cashew, and sunflower butter, they all make for convenient and healthy snacks. Like many other products, they get their sweet flavor from sugars, which are often added.

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It is important to be cautious around low-fat versions of nut and seed butter since they often use sugars to compensate. Palm sugar, dextrose, and corn syrup are common dangers, so be sure to read the label.

Salad Dressings

We all think that greens are healthy no matter what, which is why a salad always seems like the healthiest option on a menu. The truth is that this is only true of the greens in them. Many times, salad dressings are full of sugars that can counteract how healthy your ‘salad’ is, even if you added dried cranberries and sunflower seeds. The more dressing added, the worse the salad gets for you.

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Regular old sugar, corn syrup, and concentrate are all additives that may make the salad dressing much less healthy than it could be. Even light dressings can contain a lot of sugars and may not be as healthy as it could be. The biggest trick is to watch how much salad dressing your salad is topped with.