This list is going to break your heart and I really am sorry.
A regular-sized Snickers bar contains 27 grams of sugar (the equivalent of 7 teaspoons).
Sugar, corn syrup, and lactose — three different types of sugar — are listed as ingredients.
Sugar is addictive.
"The real problem with sugar is that it just makes you crave more sugar," says Amy Shapiro, M.S., R.D., of Real Nutrition NYC. When sugar enters your body, it causes the chemical dopamine to be released, which triggers your brain's reward center and makes you feel good. That's fine; the problem is that constantly eating too much sugar dulls this feel-good response so it takes larger amounts of sugar to get there — meaning the more sugar you eat, the more sugar you need.
We definitely eat too much of it.
Every nutritionist interviewed for this post recommends we consume less than half the amount of sugar most Americans actually consume. The World Health Organization allows for more in their recommendation but may soon cut that number in half. Depending on who you ask, you should probably consume no more than 6 teaspoons/25 grams of added sugar per day, which accounts for 5% of your daily caloric intake, instead of the 13% most people are currently getting from sugar.
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