About Sugar Intake Tracker
An iOS app in development plus a browser tool collection, with one job: make your added-sugar intake visible, so you can change it.
Why this site exists
Most people dramatically underestimate how much sugar they eat — not because they're careless, but because sugar is invisible. It's in sauces, cereals, yogurts, breads, and "no added sugar" juices, listed on labels under dozens of different names. The result: average adult intake runs at two to three times the recommended limit.
Awareness alone fixes a surprising amount of that. When you log what you eat against a concrete daily number, the biggest sources become obvious within days — and swapping one or two of them is usually enough to get under the limit. Sugar Intake Tracker exists to make that loop as frictionless as possible: a photo-first app that logs sugar in seconds, and tools for every "wait, how much sugar is in…?" question along the way.
Where the numbers come from
Every limit, threshold, and conversion on this site traces to a named, published source:
- World Health Organization — the guideline that free sugars should stay under 10% of daily energy intake, with a conditional recommendation of under 5% (roughly 25 g / 6 teaspoons for an average adult).
- American Heart Association — added-sugar limits of about 25 g per day for women, 36 g for men, and under 25 g for children aged 2–18, with no added sugar at all for children under 2.
- NHS (UK) — free-sugar limits by age group and the front-of-pack traffic-light thresholds we use in the label decoder.
- USDA FoodData Central — typical sugar values for the foods and drinks in our checkers, cross-checked against representative product labels.
Where a value is inherently approximate — sugar content varies by brand — tools say so and show the assumption, instead of pretending to lab precision.
What this site is not
It is not medical advice, a diagnosis tool, or a treatment plan. General population guidelines are the wrong numbers for some people: if you have diabetes, prediabetes, or another condition affected by sugar intake, your clinician's targets override anything a general calculator tells you. The tools here are for healthy adults who want visibility into an everyday habit.
Privacy, by architecture
The tracker and every tool run entirely in your browser. Your log is stored in your device's local storage — it is never sent to a server, and there is no account to create. See the privacy policy for the full picture.
Contact
Spotted a wrong number, a broken tool, or a food we should add? Email support@sugarintaketracker.com — data corrections get priority.