Calorie counting
Mulled wine calories: homemade, with honey, sugar-free and alcohol-free
Homemade mulled wine from a bottle of dry red wine without sugar provides about 63 kcal per 100 ml, with two spoons of sugar about 86, with four about 108.
Sugar
The names sugar hides behind, where there is most of it, and what to do about cravings.
Calorie counting
How many calories are in a tangerine: weight of one fruit, peeled and unpeeled
A medium peeled tangerine weighs 88 g and has about 47 kcal, a small one 76 g and 40 kcal, a large one 120 g and 64 kcal.
Nutrition
How many calories are in coffee with milk and sugar
A 250 ml mug with 50 ml of 2.
Calorie counting
Honey, syrup and oil in a spoon: measure and count
Do not automatically record a tablespoon as 15 g of food.
Shopping
Dried fruit and candied fruit: finding added sugar
To choose dried fruit without added sugar, read the ingredients: “dried” on the front is not enough.
Nutrition
Sugar a day by WHO: what counts as free sugars and how the calculator works
WHO recommends that free sugars supply less than 10% of your energy intake, and ideally less than 5%: at 2,000 kcal that is under 50 g and under 25 g.
Shopping
Muesli and granola: how much sugar is in them and what the ingredients tell you
A pack of muesli or granola will not tell you exactly how much added sugar it holds: the "sugars" line adds up everything, syrup and the sugar of dried fruit alike.
Health
Diet for fatty liver disease: what clinical guidelines say
Fatty liver disease, or NAFLD, is an excess of fat in the liver in people who do not consume excessive alcohol.
Weight loss
What to swap your usual foods with to cut calories: 15 substitutions with numbers
Swapping sauces, sides, and drinks cuts the most calories: mayonnaise for Greek yogurt saves about 180 kcal per 30 g, pasta for zucchini about 280 kcal per serving.
Calorie counting
How many calories are in varenye: classic, five-minute and lower-sugar
The FoodGPT reference card lists varenye, the Russian whole-fruit preserve, at 271 kcal and 65 g of sugar per 100 g.
Nutrition
Sugar, honey, and syrups: how they actually differ
Honey, maple syrup, and agave syrup are marketed as sugar substitutes.
Shopping
Where there is more sugar than in cola: an analysis of 34,000 products on Russian shelves
We took an open dataset from Open Food Facts—four and a half million products—and calculated how much sugar is in what is sold in Russia.
Nutrition
Sugar cravings: where they come from and what to do about them
Cravings for sweets rarely have a single cause, which is why the universal advice to "just don't eat them" doesn't work.
Shopping
How the composition of Coca-Cola has changed: cocaine, sugar, and corn syrup
Coca-Cola is a rare case where changes in the composition of a mass-market product are documented and span more than a hundred years.
Nutrition
Energy drinks: what's in the can and where the effect comes from
The composition of an energy drink looks impressive: taurine, glucuronolactone, inositol, B vitamins, and guarana extract.
Nutrition
Hidden sugar: under what names it appears in ingredients
The word "sugar" appears in ingredients less often than sugar itself does in a product: it has a dozen legal names, and the manufacturer has every right to use any of them.
From reading to doing. All of it starts in one place — knowing what is on the plate. Photograph it and the calories and macros appear on their own.
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