Whole oats naturally have sugar. Our oats however, have less natural sugar than many of our competitors because we use the whole oat, keeping the bran and germ, whereas other oat milks only use the starchy sugary part of the oat.  If you’ve ever made whole oats, you know they need a little salt and a little sugar to balance their natural oaty-ness. We add 1 gm of sugar per cup, which is equivalent to a ¼ teaspoon per cup of oat milk.