I would suggest that you look at food labels of "equivalent" products on both sides of the Atlantic. US packaged foods have a lot more sugar (and general calories) than those in Europe, even when they are the "same."
I visited us in summer, from Italy. Bread was so sugary. Cakes were sugary. Everything was much more sugary than here
I visited us in summer, from Italy. Bread was so sugary. Cakes were sugary. Everything was much more sugary than here