10 Foods With Huge Amounts of Hidden Sugar

Grilling a hamburger? Mixing up a batch of your grandma's potato salad? Prepare for a sugar bomb.

Ketchup, barbecue sauce, mayonnaise, steak sauces, salad dressing and, yes, even mustard all contain sugar. Some styles of BBQ sauce contain 13 grams of sugar—approximately three teaspoons—for every two tablespoons of the condiment!

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Yup. This is one of those "I thought it was healthy!" foods that is probably sabotaging your weight loss plans. An eight ounce serving of the average fruit variety non-fat yogurt contains a staggering 47 grams of sugar—11 teaspoons!

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Pasta with marinara sauce is a delicious and savory meal. Too bad the hidden sugars make your body treat it like dessert. Store-bought pasta sauce contains around 12 grams—around three teaspoons—of sugar for every half cup.

Unlike pasta sauce, we expect dried fruit to be sweet. Those trying to keep a healthy diet will often opt for this snack instead of candy, but it makes no difference to your body. Just one-third of a cup can have 24 grams of sugar—eight teaspoons—and it's not all naturally occurring. Most food manufacturers add a healthy dose of the refined stuff—as if fruit needs to be sweeter?!

For some reason, we've been duped into assuming granola is healthy. With 12 grams, or four teaspoons, of sugar—and sometimes much more—hiding in most conventional brands, you might as well be eating a Payday.

Love toast with your coffee? How about a sandwich for lunch? That innocent looking slice of bread contains around two grams of sugar per slice—nearly a teaspoon. Even worse, if you opt for cheap bread, it's likely added in the form of high fructose corn syrup.

You don't have to be a nutritionist to know that Lucky Charms and Frosted Flakes contain added sugar, but it's hiding in "healthy" cereals, too. Just look at the labels of Raisin Bran—20 grams or 5 teaspoons, Kellogg's Smart Start—14 grams or 3.5 teaspoons—and Kashi GoLean Crunch—13 grams or 3-plus teaspoons.

It doesn't matter whether you prefer crunchy or creamy, if you're eating any of the popular peanut butter brands, you're getting a big dose of sugar—to the tune of three grams—a teaspoon—in each two tablespoon serving. And just think, most of the time we slather it on bread—sugar—with jelly—sugar—and then feed it to our kids!

Bread and mayo isn't the only thing making our sandwiches unhealthy. Most deli meats are infused with corn syrup and/or aspartame, an artificial sugar, for some strange reason.

Another staple that most of us have eaten since childhood. Too bad there are 10 grams—more than three teaspoons—of sugar in the average half cup serving of canned tomato soup—usually high fructose corn syrup. Not to mention 400 mg of sodium. Blech.

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