Food companies are required by the FDA to list all the ingredients that go into their products on the nutrition facts label. But this doesn’t mean that we all know what the ingredients are.

Food scientists are able to combine different ingredients to create great tasting food with fewer calories, less fat or less sugar. Some of the ingredients sound more like chemicals than table sugar and many times you eat the food not knowing how it will affect your blood sugar.

Pull out your spy kit because sometimes you need to do some serious investigating to make sure you know what you are putting into your body. Don’t be fooled by the health claims you read on the labels: “sugar free!” “no sugar added!” “fat free!”

It is especially important to make sure you are accounting for any hidden carbohydrates that might raise your blood sugar.

Here is a simple tactic to make sure you don’t see a surprisingly high number on your glucose meter because you were fooled by the packaging.

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