Added sugars are those that are added to foods to make them sweeter during processing and preparation. They are not sugars that are naturally occurring in foods. We’re not concerned with sugars in fruit and dairy/dairy alternative products - these come in a nutrient dense package with fiber, vitamins, and minerals. The term ‘added sugar’ This includes both refined and unrefined sugars. Until recently, it has been really tough to figure out which products have natural sugars and which have added sugars because these were all grouped into one entry on the nutrition facts label: sugars (see turquoise).  However, the FDA updated labeling requirements beginning in 2016, so by 2020 (well, hypothetically!), all food manufacturers have specified how much added sugars are in food products. On this new label (see pink), we see that the ‘Sugars’ line now has a new name, ‘Total Sugars,’ and has a sub bullet to highlight the amount of added sugar. With this new detail, we can now see that there are 12 g of Total Sugar, and 10 g of that are Added Sugars. This means that 2 g of the 12 g of sugar are naturally occurring and are not added in processing and production.