The guide contains comprehensive listings of the most commonly purchased categories of packaged food available in Australian stores.  Each category has been scoured for brands that have less than 3 grams of sugar per 100 grams.

It’s a guide that removes all the bad products from the supermarket shelf and makes it easy for you to select simply and quickly from the good ones that are left.

But wait.  There’s more.  I’ve also included a similar analysis of the popular fast food options on offer in most Australian cities.

Freshly updated (2014), this comprehensive guide lists the 10 best and 10 worst breads on sale in Australia today (from a sugar content perspective).  It also contains a separate section for gluten and wheat free offerings and a comprehensive listing of the sugar content of over 220 supermarket breads and larger bakeries (such as Baker’s Delight).

In Sweet Poison, I set out five golden rules for people wanting to avoid fructose in their diet. Rule #4 is ‘Watch out for breakfast’. I say in the book that because many breakfast cereals are prepackaged, it’s very hard to know how much sugar you are really eating. To help people decide whether they should buy a cereal or not, I laid created a rule of thumb which I like to call the 3% rule.

In Sweet Poison, I set out five golden rules for people wanting to avoid fructose in their diet. To help people decide whether they should buy a food or not, I created a rule of thumb which I like to call the 3% rule. You won’t be surprised to find that there no store bought ice-creams which satisfy that rule.

Ever since I stopped using sugar, I haven’t ventured down the sauce aisle of a supermarket. So when I decided that perhaps I should do a Guide for condiments and sauces, I think I had in mind something that might take a lazy afternoon to put together.

Not all fruit is equal. Fruits usually contain a mixture of glucose (dextrose), sucrose (sugar) and fructose. The amount of each sugar in the fruit depends on what kind of fruit it is. A grape contains a lot of fructose and glucose but not much sucrose, whereas an apple contains some of all three.

There is no such thing as a bad vegetable. All vegetables contain some level of fructose, but it is insignificant and it is vastly overwhelmed by the fibre content.