NO SUGAR ADDED does NOT mean SUGAR FREE!!!!

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If you are diabetic or just cutting down the sugar in your diet for health reasons, here is the worse food labeling confusion in the history of supermarkets! You see this on ice cream packages, pies and other baked goods, packages of so-called "diet" cookies (for shame!), and even cereals! Where does it end??? NO SUGAR ADDED quite simply means there is the some amount of sugar they normally put in the item, but they avoided adding a little more for the sugar (such as white and brown sugar, honey, frutose, glucose, suctose, ad naseum) counting crowd. SUGAR FREE means what it says. There's no sugar, honey, frutose, glucose or any other 'tose put into the item as defined by the Food and Drug Administration. Even the FDA cant monitor all sugar free items - therefore,READ THE LABELS, PEOPLE!!!