“20 Minutes” answers your questions about “low sugar” foods

Sugar "seems to have become, in recent years, the number one nutritional enemy in the eyes of a large part of the population", reports Elsa Abdoun, journalist at

- our partner - in a survey published at the end of last December.

And for proof: according to a survey on the eating habits of the French carried out by UFC-Que Choisir in April 2021, 5% of the thousands of respondents had declared that they followed a “no added sugar” diet.

However, the reliability of these products remains to be qualified.

Less sugar, perhaps, but more salt, more flavors, more additives - including sweeteners, which would have probable deleterious effects on health -.

In short, the comparisons made by

between classic products and so-called low-sugar products do not bring particularly good news about them, quite the contrary.

So here is a new episode of Brief Conso, in which journalist Elsa Abdoun answers your questions on the subject on video.

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