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Dietary recommendations suggest that sugar should not contribute more thanaround 10% of energy. As an example, for a seven to ten year old child with anaverage daily intake of 1800 calories, the amount of sugar consumed shouldtherefore be below 50g per day. Foods with more than 10g sugar per 100g or perportion were rated as having high levels of sugar (see note to Table 3). Of the 358children’s food products examined, 112 gave no indication of their sugar contenton their product labels. Of those that gave details of sugar content, 57% (140 outof 246) contained high levels of sugar. A further 71 (29%) contained moderateamounts (see note to Table 3). Examples of products with high levels of sugar aregiven in the table below.Table 5: Examples of products with ‘a lot’ of sugar (> 10g/100g)Manufacturer Brand/Product Name Sugars (g per 100g)ASDA Garden Gang dried pineapple & papaya 73.0Safeway Kids Own candyfloss flavour delight 65.5Nestle Whirly Flings butterscotch flavour dessert 60.3Kellogg’s Smacks cereal and milk bar 58.0Greens Fun to Bake Club strawberry flavour cake kit 56.1Askey’s Jellikins fromage frais delight 50.0Quaker Sugar Puffs breakfast cereal 49.0Yeo Valley Crazy Creatures yogurts 25.04.2 Saturated fatThe total amount of saturated fat in a diet has particular relevance to health.Health experts suggest that 10% or less of total energy intake should come fromsaturated fats. As an example, a seven to ten year old child with an average dailyintake of 1800 calories should eat no more than 20g of saturated fat to keep withinthis general guideline.Foods with more than 5g saturated fat per 100g or per portion were rated ashaving high levels of saturated fat (see note to Table 3). The present survey found17