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Even people whose diet consists mainly of savoury rather than sweet foods are probably eating more sugar than they realize, especially if they are fans of processed foods such as ready meals. The last thing you expect to find in a savoury ready meal is sugar, right? Wrong! They can contain up to 20 per cent sugar. And what about the sugar found in a dollop of tomato ketchup? Remember: even so-called ‘low-fat’ foods can be high in sugar.

The problem is that sugar is often added to foods where you’d never expect to find it. Would you, in a million years, ever imagine that there’s sugar in some sandwich meats or certain varieties of cottage cheese? For further jaw-dropping revelations about where you’re likely to find sugar when you least expect it, see Chapter 7.

If you really want to avoid sugar, you have to learn how to decipher labels and get to the root of what you’re being fed. Sometimes it can feel like you’re reading another language! In later chapters, we’ll show you how to be a label ‘detective’ and work out for yourself if a food contains sugar, even if it looks like it shouldn’t.