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Given the increasing focus on sugar — the effects on weight and well-being — a natural question might be: How much sugar do I really eat?

After all, there's sugar in candy; there's sugar in regular fruit; there's sugar in dried fruit.

BBC News tackled the topic, and while some of the intake recommendations provided are from the UK government (which also is interesting), the overall reporting provides useful information.

The UK focus grew last June when a separate BBC piece noted that “a draft report by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) says sugar added to food or naturally present in fruit juice and honey should account for 5% of energy intake.” This was half the previous recommended limit. Further, “the World Health Organization has also said people should aim to get just 5% of their daily calories from the sweet stuff.”

BBC News provided this chart to show where we get our sugar:

But is all sugar equal? The piece states that “Sugar is sugar – right? Not quite. Health professionals take a dim view of sugars added to processed food but say that naturally occurring sweetness in milk and fruit is largely fine, with the exception of juice.”