Reading list of ingredients
 

When I buy bread, for example, the ingredients are listed like this: whole wheat, corn syrup, water...

I know the ingredients must be listed in the order they are used, if the wheat is first, the bread has the most of it by what: weight? volume? anything else?

I think its by quantity. Whatever has the largest quantity in the product is listed first, the smallest would be last. So if sugar is the first ingredient in cereal, you know it's got more sugar than grains.

It's by weight.

http://women.webmd.com/how-to-read-food-labels

Oh, so it's by weight, thank you, Anon!

So maybe if corn syrup is listed 2nd it's not that much? I tried to google... Corn Syrup - cup - 12 oz; 340 g

1 oz = 28.3 grams

1 teaspoon 1/6 oz or 4.72 grams

1 teaspoon of sugar (yes, the same one that helps medicine go down) os 4 gram

OUCH!

Watch out for all the different names of "sugar".

For example, if bread has HFCS, fructose, etc. listed separately, it could show "wheat" as the #1 ingredient, when in fact if you totalled up all the different types of sugar, THAT would really be #1.

Yeah, they now post a chart with numbers.

Mr Again went to buy turkey breast, on front it was 97% fat free. He fell for it (I was sick at home, he was doing food shopping). In the chart it was like 1 slice 200 calories, fat 100 calories. It makes it 50% fat.

Are the sugars (like 7 grams per slice in bread or 27 grams in a cup of yogurt) combined, added sugar + syrup + molasses + whatever?

Faina, you made a switch from weight ounces to fluid ounces that caused you to underestimate the sugar. A teaspoon is one-sixth of a FLUID ounce.

I hope this is why they put a gram chart - for foolish people like myself :))