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Free Sugar Intake Calculator

AHA-recommended daily added sugar limit.

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Max added sugar / day

25 g

Equivalent6.3 teaspoons
Calories100 kcal

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Short answer

AHA-recommended daily added sugar limit.

What is the Sugar Intake Calculator?

AHA-recommended daily added sugar limit.

How does the Sugar Intake Calculator work?

Enter the inputs above and read the result.

Formula

AHA: ≤25 g women, ≤36 g men

Variables

  • gGrams of added sugar

Explanation

American Heart Association limits for added sugar (not fruit/dairy).

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            Related concepts

            The Sugar Intake Calculator sits inside the Health Calculators hub, in the nutrition & diet cluster. Energy targets and macronutrient planning. Understanding the terms below makes the output easier to interpret and easier to compare against neighbouring measures.

            energy balancemacronutrient splithydrationthermic effectmicronutrient

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            Understanding Sugar Intake

            AHA-recommended daily added sugar limit. Within health calculators, sugar intake belongs to the nutrition & diet cluster, where it shares terminology and assumptions with closely related tools.

            Learning how sugar intake is calculated

            American Heart Association limits for added sugar (not fruit/dairy). Working through the variables one at a time — g — makes the result reproducible by hand and easier to sanity-check.

            Using sugar intake to make a decision

            Because outputs depend on the assumptions you enter, run more than one scenario before committing to a figure.

            How sugar intake compares with related measures

            energy balance, macronutrient split, hydration, thermic effect all describe adjacent aspects of nutrition & diet. Comparing this calculator's output against those measures — using the related tools listed on this page — prevents a single metric from being read in isolation.

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