It's so hard to find drinks, portable snacks, and similar that are in the 3-8% sugar range with no artificial sweetener to make them inedibly sweet. You finally find one and a few weeks later the sugar doubles or it is replaced with 5x the sweetness in erithrotol
Just x g of sugar, and y equivalent grams of sweetener on the front in a standard format.
I juice my own lemons, limes and grapefruit and mix each with seltzer water for really tasty beverages. Bananas, apricots, and home made trail mix cover the snacks. If you use a nutrition site and work with what you might have in bulk in a nearby store, you can make some very balanced snacks, and you're entirely in control of the portions.
This all takes very little time. I'm honestly mad it took me 40 years to just do this instead of buying "premade" anything.
A cursory look says a 12oz Coke Cola has 39grams of sugar while a Diet Coke has 0.2 grams of aspartame. How would you like it to be labelled?
⇒ I expect they would like to see something like “39 REAL”, respectively “40 ARTIFICIAL” on the label.
Of course there’s a can of worms in that there are multiple ‘real’ sugars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar) and producers will try to talk down that 200, but I think that’s solvable.
What’s less solvable is that producers will talk down the unit size used to compute the amount of sugar, just as they do with the unit size used to compute the number of calories.
Alternatively, this could be shown as a sweetness rating with “x% artificial” added, or just as a sweetness rating alongside the existing ‘calories’ rating.
Talking down the 200 for asparteme is fine as long as the ratio is always the same for asparteme
Total grams of sugar per 100 and total sweeteners equivalent to y grams of sucrose per 100 when both are dissolved in water would suffice.
If the typical consumer drinks the stuff in bottle sizes, maybe the dietary information on the bottle should use ‘per bottle’.
The relevant question is 'how sugary is this substance'. With a secindary question of 'how sweet is it' to set expectations for people who want somet=ing sweet or peoplewho don't. Give people the basic level of respect to decide how much they have after that.
There's usually one or two items on the muesli/nut/cake bar shelf, but you have to read the nutrition info for half of them every time to find it.