Health authorities don’t set specific recommendations, but some U.S. experts advise women consume no more than 6 teaspoons of sugar per day.
Phil Lempert, a food industry analyst, trend watcher and creator of supermarketguru.com, said it is recommended that men eat no more than 9 teaspoons of sugar a day — while one 12-ounce can of regular soda contains eight or more teaspoons of sugar, or 130 calories.
The American Heart Association says since the 1980s, adult consumption of sugar increased by 51 percent in men and women, while the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas calculated that Americans consume about 22 teaspoons of sugar per day — 3.6 times the recommendation for women and 2.4 times that for men, Lempert said.