With sugar there’s a couple things to keep in mind.
There are naturally occurring sugars in many foods, and if the food itself is what we would classify as low carb food, then it’s totally fine- for instance, a can of tomatoes will show some grams of sugar on the can – even though the ingredients show all it is is tomatoes and calcium chloride- so those grams of sugar are just the naturally occurring sugar in tomatoes, and that’s totally okay to consume.
2ndly, there are some products that have very very tiny amounts of added sugar- an example of this is bacon- in my P3tolife.com program, I have found that utilizing bacon like this is NOT a problem for phase 3. So this is also something you don’t need to be concerned about if it’s a small amount- for instance the amount of bacon a P3tolifer will consume in a meal that contains bacon is like 1/16th of a tsp of “sugar” very tiny and makes no difference from the results we’ve seen.
So really what you want to actually look out for and avoid would be:
- All grain
- All legumes
- Higher carb vegetables like potatoes or sweet potatoes are best left till P4.
- Keep fruit amounts small if consume (we utilize small amounts of various fruits in P3tolife, but again very small portions)
- And anytime a recipe or food has a fair amount of sugar used in the ingredient label.
So if a jar of something said for instance, 6g sugar, and the label showed that likely most of that sugar is coming not from naturally occurring sugars in vegetables or fruit but rather from an actual sugar added to that jar, then I’d avoid that.
But again if it’s bacon with 1 gram, I wouldn’t worry about that.
