Just as sugar is known worldwide as an important ingredient—so too has it become a global issue.
Official bodies—ranging from national governments to the World Health Organization (WHO)—have focused on daily dietary sugar intake and sugar’s contribution to global issues of obesity and chronic health problems. For its part, the WHO has recommended since 2015 that consumers reduce sugar intake from 10% of daily total calorie intake to 5% of those total calories. Experts have said that for an adult of a normal body mass index (BMI), that works out to about six teaspoons—or 25g of sugar—per day.