Too much sugar

6 Minute English

语言学习

2017-10-26

6 分钟
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  • I'm Rob and welcome to Six Minute English.

  • We've got a sweet topic today and six tempting items of vocabulary.

  • Hello, I'm Neil and we're going to be talking about sugar,

  • which many of us find tempting, but how much is too much, Rob?

  • I don't know, Neil, but hopefully we'll be finding that out.

  • I must admit, though, I have a sweet tooth,

  • and that means I like sugary things.

  • Me too.

  • But something I'm always seeing in the news these days is that we're eating too much sugar,

  • and one important factor is that sugars are sometimes hidden in processed foods.

  • Processed food is any food that has been changed in some way,

  • by freezing it or putting it in tins, or by combining foods or adding chemicals.

  • In fact, some of the sugars we eat are hidden in food that we think of as healthy, such as yogurts, low fat snacks and fruit drinks.

  • Do you check the information on the back of food packets, Rob, to see what's in them?

  • Yes, I do, but it can be very confusing.

  • There's so much information, and I'm not always sure how much of a certain thing is bad.

  • Well, that brings me onto today's quiz question.

  • Can you tell me, if a food contains 5% total sugars per 100 grams,