Is 15g of natural sugar "better" than 5g of added sugar? https://ift.tt/wrz2mnW

I am currently trying to reduce my daily sugar intake as much as possible, without fully cutting it out. I wanted a snack bar yesterday before a run, and I was deciding between 2 of my favourite bars:

• RXBar Chocolate Chip (190cal, 15g sugar, 12g protein) Ingredients: Dates, Dried egg-whites, Almonds, Cashews, Unsweetened chocolate, Natural flavour, Sea salt.
• Kind Bar Almond Sea Salt & Dark Chocolate (200cal, 5g sugar, 6g protein) Ingredients: Almonds, peanuts, inulin, honey, palm kernel oil, sugar, glucose syrup, crisp rice (rice flour, sugar, salt), cocoa mass, cocoa powder, sea salt, soy lecithin, natural flavour, cocoa butter.

Just comparing the ingredients, RXBar stands out as having pretty whole ingredients apart from "natural flavour". Whereas the Kind Bar has a bunch of syrups, sweeteners and oils. But with the nutrition breakdown, the Kind bar has 1/3 less sugar. The RXBar sugar likely comes from dates, so I'm wondering whether the 15g of date sugar is any better than getting 5g of sugar from added syrups?

I ended up opting for the Kind bar with 5g of sugar as 15g just sounded like a lot, even though it's more "natural". Any guidance would be appreciated!

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