Compared two jars of spaghetti sauce side by side and the one labeled 'no sugar added' actually had more sugar than the regular one, what gives?

I grabbed both at the Kroger in Nashville last week and the 'healthy' one listed sugar as the second ingredient after tomatoes while the regular one had it further down, has anyone else caught labels pulling that trick with serving sizes?

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morgan_ramirez25d ago

Right, and they shrink the serving size too so the numbers look smaller. It's total nonsense, the 'no sugar added' thing just means they didn't dump extra sugar in but the tomatoes themselves are already full of sugar. I've started just looking at the grams per 100g on the nutrition label to compare things honestly. That little cheat of screwing with serving sizes is their oldest trick in the book. Drives me nuts every time.

phoenix19825d ago

Last week I grabbed a jar of Prego and a jar of Classico and did the same thing side by side in my kitchen at 10 PM, my dog watching me like I'd lost my mind. The Classico listed 8g of sugar per serving, the Prego had 6g, but the Classico serving size was half a cup and the Prego was three-quarters of a cup so the math was all crazy. I ended up just boiling noodles and mixing both jars together out of spite, which actually worked out fine but tasted like a tomato identity crisis.