There is a lot of confusion around fruits and natural sugars. If you follow a low-carb diet or have diabetes, you may have been told that you can't eat fruit or that fruit can be eaten because it contains natural sugar. The truth is that while the sugars in fruit are natural, how they affect blood sugar levels will depend on a variety of factors, including what they are eaten with and whether you have diabetes.

If you're trying to improve your diet, one of the first recommendations from nutrition experts is often to reduce your intake of added sugar. Sounds easy, right? Well, this could have been absolutely real if food labels didn't have so many different words for sugar.